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This week in science news we discovered a city-size comet that regrew"horns" after a volcanic eruption, gawked at gorgeous mummy portraits from 2,000 years ago and solved a mystery about why some people have more Neanderthal DNA than others.
Archaeologists, meanwhile, unveiled some earth-shaking images of their own, from a collection of 2,000-year-old stunning mummy paintings to a jaw-dropping depiction of a long-ago New Year's celebration that had been covered in grime for two millennia. Further back in time, archaeologists unearthed two 11,000-year-old statues, including one of a wild boar and another of a giant man clutching his nether region.
And geneticists finally figured out why East Asians harbor more Neanderthal DNA than their European cousins — the latter mated with an influx of Middle-Eastern farmers thousands of years ago, diluting their Neanderthal genetic legacy. The footage was captured by Frankie Adamson, a wildlife and resident photographer for the safari operator Governors' Camp Collection, from the banks of the Mara River."The crocodile already had the baby hippo held in its jaws by the time I approached, and I was fairly certain it was already dead," Adamson told Live Science.
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