Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this week's episode of 7 Days of Science, Doug talks about an exoplanet with something curious in its atmosphere, Doug talks about some great Neanderthal discoveries, and Doug then goes on to talk about the latest Pliosaur discovery.

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Sources:

Images of Bennu’s stuff:
nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-bennu-asteroid-sample-contains-carbon-water

Quartz in WASP-17 b:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acfc3b
nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-detects-tiny-quartz-crystals-in-the-clouds-of-a-hot-gas-giant
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/webb-quartz-clouds-atmosphere-wasp-17b-12358.html

Antarctica’s Shrinking Ice Shelves:
phys.org/news/2023-10-antarctica-ice-shelves-volume-years.html
phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-huge-antarctic-ice-shelves.html
phys.org/news/2023-05-earth-deep-ocean-oxygen-declining.html

Evidence of Neanderthals hunting lions:
nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42764-0

Neanderthals could definitely make fire:
phys.org/news/2023-10-neanderthal-cuisine-excavations-reveal-neanderthals.html
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292075

An ancient giant pliosaur Lorrainosaurus keileni:
nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43015-y