Biology News: Tuberculosis

This article is about scientist finding out that tuberculosis existed about 500,000 years ago. They find a 500,000-year-old Homo erectus fossil in Turkey with traces of evidence of tuberculosis. Before, scientists believed that tuberculosis started only several thousand years ago. This Homo erectus said to be a young male and was effected with Leptomeningitis tuberculosa, which effects the brain. The drawing on the right is a drawing of a Homo erectus.

I thought this article was pretty cool because scientists found our ancestors and found out that tuberculosis existed 500,000 years before in humans. I also wonder why scientist did not know this before.

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Oil Spill in San Francisco

The oil spill in San Francisco was really disastrous. It disrupted many wildlife in the ocean, mostly the fish. I think this will have a great effect on the fish economy, especially on countries that depend on fish. The oil is toxic to humans, so if we eat the toxin fish, it would be dangerous. I still don't understand why the pilot crashed into the Bay Bridge.

Blog #2: Bio News

In this article, it talked about how scientist found a new toxin to kill Bt-resistant insects. Some insects are naturally immune to many insecticides, but this new toxin could kill any insect. Scienitists tested this on pink bollworms, which are a major pest of cotton. This new toxin killed the bollworms.
After I read this article, I thought that technology is amazing and still growing and growing rapidly. But the thing that I'm a little worried about if this also effects humans. Technology is a a helpful thing, but it also harm you also at the same time.

Here's the article