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Breaking News! October 2009

MADAGASCAR: The skull and several ribs—all about 40 million years old— of a pygmy sea cow has been uncovered in Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean, off the southeast coast of Africa. It is the first fossil mammal species yet found that dates to between 80 million years ago and 90,000 years ago—a time span about which little is known.

TURKEY: The cuneiform text on clay tablets unearthed among the ruins of an ancient Assyrian palace are now being translated—and the news is that the scribes who wrote them painstakingly made note of even the smallest incident. The translating takes time, but once complete, we should know much more about how the inner workings of this powerful empire.