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Even C-Span Is Piqued: Senate Puts Limits on Trial Coverage

GOP pushes censorship and limiting freedom of speech! The Senate will control the cameras during the impeachment trial, limiting what viewers see, and reporters will be confined to roped-off areas.

Neanderthals dived for shells to make tools, research suggests

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Study adds weight to claims that stereotype of knuckle-headed Neanderthals is wrong

Neanderthals went diving for shells to turn into tools, according to new research, suggesting our big-browed cousins made more use of the sea than previously thought.

The study focuses on 171 shell tools that were found in a now inaccessible coastal cave in central Italy, known as the Grotta dei Moscerini, which was excavated in 1949. Dating of animal teeth found within layers alongside the shell tools suggest they are from about 90,000 to 100,000 years ago – a time when only Neanderthals are thought to have been present in western Europe.

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