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AGLE-EYED BEACHCOMBERS may recognise the round white shells etched with a five-petal flower. These erstwhile homes of sea urchins resemble a silver dollar, earning them the nickname “sand dollars” and the myth that they are the money of mermaids or the long-lost city of Atlantis. They pile up on the shores of the 700 islands in the Bahamas, so its central bank picked the sand dollar as its logo. In October 2020, when the Bahamas launched the world’s first central-bank digital currency (
CBDC), the authorities chose to adorn the app with the familiar floral pattern and call it the sand dollar.
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Saber-toothed cats stalked and ate baby mammoths
The comedy film “Ice Age” humorously depicted a saber-toothed cat and a mammoth as misfit friends, but in prehistoric times the feline carnivore was a formidable
predator that preyed on the young of the large mammal.
The scimitar-toothed cat, or Homotherium serum, hunted 2-year-old mammoths, new research published mid-April in the journal Current Biology has revealed.
The team of geologists and paleontologists estimated what the extinct animal ate by examining the
chemical makeup of its teeth. If certain types of carbon from plants existed in both Homotherium and mammoths, it’s likely the herbivore was a tasty meal for the carnivore, according to the researchers.
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Editorâs Note: This is the 389th in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes.
HUNTINGTON â In 1906, author Jesse Hilton Stuart was born in W-Hollow in Greenup County, Kentucky, and lived there his whole life, except for his college years and later when he spent time abroad. But his visits to Huntington and the Marshall University campus were so frequent that many in the community looked on him as one of their own.
Mitchell Stuart, the future authorâs father, could neither read nor write, and his mother, Martha, had only a second-grade education. But they taught their two sons and three daughters to value education, and all five children graduated from college.