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The thriving wild boar population creating havoc in the Highlands

The thriving wild boar population creating havoc in the Highlands

Wild boar once roamed free in the Scottish Highlands but a combination of hunting and loss of habitat led to their demise in the 13th Century. Now they are back and enjoying a resurgence, but this brings its own problems because the boar are incredibly powerful, incredibly destructive, and they just won’t stay in one place..

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Origins of the 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendo solved

The Venus of Willendorf is a 4.4-inch Venus figurine, found in 1908 at a Palaeolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria.
In a new study published by the University of Vienna in collaboration with Vienna’s Natural History Museum, researchers applied high-resolution tomography, suggesting that the Venus originates from a region in northern Italy.

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