An odd-nosed crocodile ate our prehistoric ancestors

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Humans have contended with crocodiles for a really long time. The recent discovery of an ancient crocodilian species sporting a strange snout indicates the reptiles may have even preyed on our earliest known hominin ancestor. The species detailed in…

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Pitch Points: Sergiño Dest’s injury, Christian Pulisic’s title chances and Old Firm trouble | Soccer

Pitch Points: Sergiño Dest’s injury, Christian Pulisic’s title chances and Old Firm trouble | Soccer

Who replaces Sergiño Dest on the US roster? Sergiño Dest’s World Cup is at risk. The 25-year-old limped off with a hamstring injury during PSV’s Eredivisie win over AZ Alkmaar on Saturday, immediately starting a countdown clock in the minds of US men’s national team supporters who now fear Mauricio Pochettino’s first-choice right back could…

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Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures

Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures

Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good one. It’s a hard sort of acting to describe, a spectacle of humility and self-awareness, unshowy and confident. A businessman with a genial, chatty energy, Mae’s father, facing mortality,…

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Undisclosed ads on TikTok skirt ban on profiling minors

European Union laws restrict adverts on TikTok targeting children Sipa US / Alamy The European Union recently introduced strict laws to stop social media platforms from targeting children with personalised advertisements. But a study of TikTok reveals a massive loophole: teens are still being bombarded with highly targeted commercial content disguised as everyday posts. The…

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