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Saturday, 3 December 2011

Early humans were skilled deep-sea fishers

Prehistoric humans living more than 40,000 years ago had mastered the skills needed to catch fast-moving, deep ocean fish such as tuna.


Posted by Dr CLÉiRIGh at 06:33
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