Top stories: Tracking the Himalayan wolf, trusting science, and finding our ‘ghost’ ancestors
(left to right): GERALDINE WERHAHN/ HIMALAYAN WOLVES PROJECT; VLAD TCHOMPALOV/UNSPLASH; NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON/SCIENCE SOURCE
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Mysterious ‘ghost’ populations had multiple trysts with human ancestors
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Humans are a bigger source of climate-altering methane, new studies suggest
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