Quirks and Quarks

Quirks & Quarks for Jan. 17, 2015

Finding the source of the Ebola oubreak, ancient scorpions walking, stars showing their age, tool-making humans talking, geese climbing mountains and a devious carnivorous plant.

Ancient scorpion fossils; CSI Ebola, and more

One of the fossils of the 430 million year old scorpion, Eramoscorpius brucensis. ( © David Rudkin, Royal Ontario Museum)

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