BULGARIA

Scientists decided that two enamel, left uncatalogued in a museum for many years, belong to a long-extinct European panda. The beast possible lived in a swampy forest, a radically totally different habitat from that of its bamboo-eating fashionable cousins, and had a extra numerous weight-reduction plan.

KENYA

The worst drought in 40 years killed 179 elephants—20 occasions greater than poachers did up to now yr—making local weather change the larger risk to the animals.

LIBYA

Genome sequencing of 6,000-year-old seeds from a watermelon relative suggests the fruit was prized for these nutritious seeds, not for its flesh—which was bitter, not like at the moment’s refreshingly candy varieties.

MEXICO

A brand new species of big deep-sea isopod—a cousin to the frequent capsule bug however greater than 10 inches lengthy—was discovered hiding in plain sight. Initially captured off the Yucatán Peninsula, it was confused with different isopods in an aquarium till genome sequencing revealed it was one thing new.

Tanzania

Social media is coming to the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro with the the set up of high-speed fiber-optic Wi-Fi. Though the brand new system might make it simpler for climbers to publish selfies or name for assist, individuals residing within the mountain’s shadow won’t have expanded protection.

TURKEY

Skeletal DNA from greater than 700 individuals who lived in Anatolia 10,000 years in the past means that agriculture developed as totally different migrating populations intermingled, quite than solely from native hunter-gatherers switching to farming. These migrations can also have introduced Indo-European languages to the area.