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Baby giant water bugs, like true bugs, have piercing-sucking mouthparts. Water bugs catch small fish, stab them with their beak-like mouthparts and squirt special juices into the fish. These juices change the fish's insides into a soft goo - perfect for 'babies' to slurp up.


Neanderthals were cannibals, bones show


Neanderthals were cannibals, bones show
Scientists report that there was a dark side to neanderthals - cannibalism. Neanderthals were skilled hunters who were expert at butchering carcasses of deer, goats, and possibly even woolly rhinos with wooden spears. A team of researchers have now uncovered 100,000 year old bones from a Neanderthal site in France which provide evidence that these early humans consumed the muscle and bone marrow of their companions. Scientists now think that while some tribes of neanderthals practiced cannibalism, others practiced intentional burial and honoured their dead.
1 OCTOBER 1999, P. 18-19
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1 OCTOBER 1999, P. 18-19

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