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1,000-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried

1,000-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The remains of an ancient dingo is shining new light on deep relationships between Australia’s First Nations and the wild dogs. Barkindji ancestors deliberately cared for and buried the dingo along the Baaka (Darling River) about 800 miles west of Sydney.  The dingo is known as garli in Barkindji language and they lived alongside the Barkindji as part of the community. While burying the dog, the Barkindji took great care in building a midden, or a spot to place organic material. The people living there continued to bring river mussel shells to the midden for hundreds of years after the dingo’s death. Archaeologists believe that this marks the first time this type of post-death feeding ritual has been scientifically documented. The findings are detailed in a study published today in the journal Australian Archeology. “While Barkindji people have always known about this cultural practice, this discovery is really powerful because it provides new details on the depth of that …

Avenue Q review – A Gen-X time capsule that should have stayed buried

Avenue Q review – A Gen-X time capsule that should have stayed buried

Published by Daniella Wilson

Think back to the turn of the century. Political correctness had “gone mad”, so it was said, and the cutting edge of comedy was a battleground for the busting of new taboos. Gen-Xers, weaned on the ironic, pop-culture-literature nectar of The Simpsons, were making their own stabs at transgression. It was an era that gave us Family Guy, South Park, and, on stage, Avenue Q, a musical that dared to ask the all-important question: what if the puppets in Sesame Street were all professionally listless, sexually active young adults? Audiences, cynical and pop-culturally savvy themselves, ate it up. Avenue Q beat fledgling box office behemoth Wicked to the big Tony Award win that year, a victory for the snarky contrarian. But that was then, and this is now. Twenty-three years have passed since Avenue Q premiered (in its initial incarnation, off-Broadway), and 16 since its West End run came to an end. Now it’s back, revived at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. The world has changed, and Avenue Q has not. Bar the odd modified line – …

Brigitte Bardot buried in Saint-Tropez as cause of death revealed

Brigitte Bardot buried in Saint-Tropez as cause of death revealed

Published by Sam Flores

Flowers and photos near the grave of the late French film icon Brigitte Bardot at the Marine Cemetery after her funeral ceremony in Saint-Tropez, France, January 7, 2026. MANON CRUZ / REUTERS Well-wishers lined the streets in Brigitte Bardot’s hometown of Saint-Tropez on Wednesday, January 7, for the funeral of the French screen icon as her husband revealed she had died from cancer. A day of commemorations began with a traditional Catholic service at the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church where her unusual wicker coffin was received by her long-estranged son. A hearse then carried the reclusive star of the late 1950s and 60s to her family’s Mediterranean seaside grave for a private ceremony attended by family and close friends. Hundreds of people, many with their pets, watched proceedings on a giant screen at the yacht-filled Saint-Tropez port, which the blonde star helped transform into a world-famous playground for the rich. Read more Subscribers only Brigitte Bardot, global film icon and champion of animal rights, has died ‘No frills’ event Bardot’s best-known associations – to the …