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200-year-old rockfish:?A Seattle resident caught a shortraker rockfish, which at some two centuries old?might be the oldest one ever caught.
Sport fisherman Henry Liebman, from Seattle, holds his record-breaking shortraker rockfish at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game office on Friday in Sitka, Alaska. The fish measured more than 40 inches and weighed almost 40 pounds.
James Poulson/Daily Sitka Sentinel/AP
EnlargeLong before Alaska was a state, a fish was born there. And for 200 years that fish lived off Alaska?s coast, oblivious to the centuries of national and personal dramas that played out nearby. Until now.
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A Seattle resident has caught a 39-pound, 41-inch-long shortracker rockfish that is estimated to be some two centuries old. If the age is correct, then it will be the oldest shortracker ever caught, as well as one of the oldest fish ever caught, the?Daily Sitka Sentinel reported.?The fisherman, Henry Liebman, has now passed the fish to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for?age verification, the Sentinel said.
The Rockfish ? which looks like a goldfish that has magically enlarged and burst from its bowl ? are common off Alaska, as well as near the coasts of eastern Russia and northern California. The shimmering, neon orange, and somewhat bloated looking?fish is generally found either alone or in small groups at a depth of between about 990 ft. to 1,650 ft., with old fish deeper than their younger counterparts, preying on small crustaceans that live on underwater boulder fields.?
The Shortraker rockfish are thought to average in lifespan about 120 years and to be the second-longest-living of all the varieties of rockfish, with the Rougheye species topping the lifespan list at some 140 years.?That means rockfish are some of the world?s oldest living fish, matched only by equally long-lived fish like the sturgeon, an ancient fish found in North America that can live to be more than a century old.
?Rockfish are way out at one extreme in terms of lifespan,? said?James Haynes, a professor of?Environmental Science & Biology at SUNY?Brockport.?Of the worlds some 25,000 identified species of fish, most are concentrated closer to the other lifespan extreme, completing their lifecycle in about a year, he said.?
But even by rockfish standards, this latest catch is unusually old.
?This is an extraordinarily old individual," said Haynes "The vast majority of rockfish won't live to 200 ? this fish had a certain genetic endowment, and it didn?t get sick and it didn?t get eaten.? ?
The fish?s size likely also played into its old age, since size is often correlated to age in fish, said Dr.?Haynes. The previous record age for a caught rockfish was about 175-years-old, and that fish, at about 32.5-inches-long, was smaller than this latest catch.
Fish age is usually determined using the animal?s otoliths ? its earbones ? as those bones contain a record of seasonal growth patterns, much as do tree rings. Since in temperate zones fish grow more in the summer than they do in winter, patterns in the otoliths suggest how many full years that fish has weathered, with alternating wide summer zones and narrow winter zones.
Those patterns are less discernable in polar zones, and even less so in tropical zones, where there is less seasonal variation in temperature, said Dr. Haynes. A fish caught in Alaska, at the boundary between the temperate and polar zones, likely experiences enough temperature change that its otoliths can be read for its age, he said.
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Protesters hold signs and cheer during a protest before the start of a special session of the Legislature in Austin, Texas, on July 1.
By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News
The Texas Capitol became the center of America's abortion debate again on Monday?as thousands of demonstrators were on hand to voice opposition to Republican-backed legislation that would dramatically limit abortion rights in the state.
The protests came at the start of a special legislative session called by Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry after a bill that would have essentially ban most abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy was halted last week.
The effort was led by Democratic state Senator Wendy Davis, who became a national icon for abortion-rights advocates after standing for?hours to filibuster the legislation.
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"Less than a week ago you were at the crux of a turning point in Texas history, you joined the ranks of brave men and women who love this state and fought for their liberties and preserving Texas values,"?Davis told thousands gathered on the steps of the state capitol in Austin, Texas, on Monday. ?Many wore orange and held "Stand With Wendy" signs.
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Anti-abortion supporters and pro-abortion rights supporters crowd into the rotunda of the Texas capitol, on July 1, in Austin, Texas.
"It was your voices lent to me that made it possible for me to stand those 13 hours," she said.
Also on hand to support Davis was Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks and actress Lisa Edelstein.
On the final day of a legislative session, Davis held the floor for over ten hours to prevent a vote on the controversial bill.
Texas Republicans attempted to use parliamentary maneuvers to pass the bill before the session came to a close, but?protestors?in the gallery shouted so loudly that the lawmakers were unable to hear and the could not pass the bill before the midnight deadline.?
Opponents of the bill view it as a way for Republicans to cripple abortion clinics in the deeply conservative state. Supporters say the measure is an important one to protect the health of women.
A smaller group of the proposed law's supporters were also on hand, many wearing blue and singing "Amazing Grace."
Perry and Texas Republicans have vowed to pass the bill.?
"We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do," Perry said in a statement announcing a second special legislative session.? ??
The abortion bill on Monday was referred to committees for public hearings before the legislature?recessed?for the week. There will be no action on the bill until at least July 9.
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Microsoft researchers have discovered that a pair of PC viruses called Vobfus and Beebone are harder to squash when they work in tandem. Two heads are better than one, right?
Vobfus and Beebone work by regularly downloading updates of each other. Vobfus, a worm virus that was first discovered in 2009, usually appears on a machine first?often through malicious links on a website or within a USB drive. Once it's installed, Vofus will download Beebone, a trojan virus. From there, Beebone will typically hook the infected machine up to a botnet and let the spam spread.
Once the Legion of Doom of viruses are present on a computer, hackers can mine afflicted machines for data or use them to send spam to other machines hooked up to the botnet. The pair is more powerful together. Since they download one another constantly, it makes them particularly hard to get rid of. And Microsoft says, even if Vobfus has been detected and removed, there very well may be a version of Beebone flying under the radar.
So how do you avoid the dynamic duo? Microsoft offers some common sense solutions?one, disable autorun on Windows computers, because Vobfus often sneaks in through USB drives and other removable devices. And two, lay off clicking the suspicious links of course. And if that fails, you can always resort to a folding chair attack while the ref's distracted. [TechNet via BBC News]
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and other U.S. officials will meet with Chinese officials next week in Washington, D.C.
ASPEN, Colo. ? U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said he will keep up pressure on China over cybersecurity, especially stealing of intellectual property and trade secrets, which he sees as separate from other Internet-related issues between the two countries.
The recently appointed Treasury secretary said on Sunday he had already raised his concerns on cybersecurity when he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in China recently.
"It is fundamentally a different set of issues and is something that is going to remain high on our agenda of issues to talk to with them about," he told an audience at the Aspen Ideas festival, saying the meetings in China were "productive."
Lew and Secretary of State John Kerry are set to host their Chinese counterparts in Washington D.C. next week for the annual U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Computer hacking is a contentious issue between the two countries. U.S. intelligence leaders have said that cyberattacks and cyberespionage had supplanted terrorism as the top security threat facing the United States.
For its part, China accused U.S. recently of "double standards" in cybersecurity after the flight from Hong Kong of fugitive former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked details of U.S. cybersurveillance tactics.
While not directly referring to the Snowden issue, Lew said cybertheft "is just different from other kinds of issues in the cyber area."
Lew said he also used the recent visit to Beijing to try and convince the new Chinese administration to reduce barriers to trade and open up the country to wider foreign investment.
U.S. companies face barriers to invest in around 100 Chinese sectors, while China holds that U.S. bars Chinese investments on unjustified national security grounds.
"They fundamentally have to move from a place where they have a very rigid, structured support for all the industries and go to more market-determined interest rates, market-determined investment policies, opening their market more to international investment," Lew said.
"The fact that there are other issues that do come up between us can't become an issue as we talk about the core economic issues which are frankly things China needs to do in order to grow its economy," he added.
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The cast of "Dexter" -- from left C.S. Lee as Vince Masuka, David Zayas as Angel Batista, Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, Jennifer Carpenter as Debra Morgan, James Remar as Harry Morgan and Desmond Harrington as Joey Quinn -- is back for the final season, but will everyone make it out alive?
For seven seasons, "Dexter's" titular avenging angel has been getting away with murder. But Dex (Michael C. Hall) is about to take his final bow as Showtime's award-winning drama launches its final season Sunday.
Will Miami's most prolific serial killer (a high honor, considering how many predators seem to be drawn to the Magic City) survive the season? Will he finally be arrested -- caught by his own colleagues or exposed by his guilt-ridden sister? Or could Dexter actually escape?
We can't predict Dexter's ultimate fate, but here are six things we'd like to see (or in some cases, not see) before we bid farewell to the blood-spatter -- and blood-spattering -- expert.
1. Hannah returns: Dexter and his femme fatale have wicked chemistry, and it would be tragic if she didn't return to water his plants. Actually, Yvonne Strahovski's return as Hannah in season eight has already been confirmed, but the circumstances remain a mystery. If she's wearing handcuffs, we hope it involves a tryst with Dexter instead of another arrest.
2. More Masuka: Miami's lead forensics investigator (C.S. Lee) is vulgar, perverted sexist, awkward and tactless, but his quotable quips always provide much-needed comic relief during the most horrific crime scenes. And his signature snicker -- heh, heh, heh -- always draws a laugh from us (if not his irritated colleagues).
3. Less Harry Morgan: The expiration date on Dexter's interfering dead dad (James Remar) is waaay overdue. To the tune of about seven seasons. Can't this grating ghost find another killer to carpool with? (P.S.: If we see LaGuerta's spirit, we might cancel our Showtime subscription.)
4. Miami Metro's Keystone Kops learn some detective skills: Dexter has been taking advantage of these blind buffoons for years, spotting or stealing evidence while his colleagues nurse hangovers or stare blankly at the empty thought bubbles above their heads. Batista, Quinn & Co. will never be Miami's Finest, but even fine would make Dexter's deductions less laughable. (Masuka obviously gets a pass here because he's awesome.)
5. Deb commits suicide: Debra Morgan's (Jennifer Carpenter) complicity in her brother's crimes was hard enough for the lifetime law enforcer to live with. Murdering her own boss at the end of last season will probably completely break her already fragile psyche this year -- and the result may not be a terrible thing. (We won't even mention the incest story line. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's adopted, but it's still too gross to contemplate.)
6. Dexter escapes: As exciting as it would be to see our protagonist go out in a blaze of glory, it's also a fairly predictable end. A more shocking and gratifying conclusion would be to see his colleagues, friends and family react to the terrible truth -- while Dex feeds Hannah a juicy bite of steak (holler to the opening credits!) under an Argentinian sunset.
However Dexter's journey ends, we are prepared to say goodbye -- on one condition: that the finale feature an homage to every single one of his kills over the years. It's the only fitting tribute to the killer, his victims ... and miles of duct tape and plastic wrap, and the countless olive-green henleys.
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Human ancestors scrambled to their feet, a new explanation for bipedalism asserts
By Erin Wayman
Web edition: July 1, 2013
WHOOSH. Scrambler Man ascends steep cliffs in a single burst, leaving his barbaric enemies in the dust. Then, while chasing angry beasts uphill and down, Scrambler Man is transformed into ? POOF ? The Biped, who can outwalk, outlast and outsmart them all.
Scrambler Man and The Biped could be a weird comic book superhero tale, but it?s really a different kind of story about how humans came to be: A group of researchers proposes that maneuvering in rough, rugged terrain drove the evolution of upright walking.
The question of bipedalism?s roots is one of the most fundamental???and contentious???in human evolution. It?s worth fighting over because a two-legged gait is the primordial feature separating humans from other apes. Charles Darwin recognized its importance, reasoning that when our ancestors started relying on tools and weapons to hunt, a form of walking that freed the hands would have been beneficial. One problem with Darwin?s theory: Upright walking emerged 6 million to 7 million years ago, but stone tools don?t show up in the archaeological record for millions of years after that.
Since Darwin, scientists have conjured a lengthy list of explanations for how and why upright walking arose in hominids. The savanna theory was popular: As Africa dried out millions of years ago and grasslands replaced forests, two-legged walking may have offered a more efficient way for an ape to travel across an open landscape. That idea hit a snag when researchers started digging up early, upright hominids that lived in woodlands. Proponents then tried to salvage the claim by proposing that upright walking was the most efficient way to travel between clumps of shrinking forests as the landscape changed.
Bipedalism has also been tied to the beginnings of monogamy (male providers needed free hands to bring home the Pliocene bacon), thermoregulation (an upright posture helped dissipate heat in sweltering environments) and warning displays (standing tall scared off predators and competitors). People have even claimed that a bipedal stance allowed our ancestors to wade in deep water during a watery phase of human evolution. This ?aquatic ape? theory has been thoroughly rejected by anthropologists, if not by Animal Planet.
Just when you thought scientists couldn?t possibly come up with yet another idea, along come Isabelle Winder of England?s York University and her colleagues. They argue in the June Antiquity that previous hypotheses fall short because they ignore an important factor: topography.
Past bipedalism research considered the benefits of upright walking only on flat ground. But early hominid fossils are found in places where frequent tectonic activity created rocky, jagged environments. Scrambling up steep hills and uneven terrain might have given early hominids evolutionary advantages, such as finding new food supplies and escaping predators that couldn?t climb.
Scrambling would have favored an upright posture, shorter arms relative to an ape?s and a more rigid foot that could act as a lever while scaling rough surfaces, Winder and her colleagues say. These features are also beneficial for bipedalism. As savannas took over, hominids might have spent more time there, perhaps hunting prey. Chasing quick animals would have favored long-distance walking and running, and the features related to scrambling would have been further modified for habitual bipedalism. So, the savanna theory is once again resurrected, albeit in a new form.
It?s not as if scientists have completely ignored the importance of topography in human evolution. In 2011, Ryan Higgins and Christopher Ruff, both of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, suggested that living in the mountains explains Neandertals? short legs.
Compared with Homo sapiens, Neandertals were small statured with relatively short shins. Many anthropologists attribute the size difference to the colder environments that Neandertals lived in. Compact bodies conserve heat better. Higgins and Ruff thought that living in Eurasia?s mountains also shaped Neandertals. On flat land, individuals with long legs walk more efficiently than those with shorter legs because they don?t have to take as many strides to cover the same distance. That advantage disappears in sloped terrain. People with shorter lower legs don?t have to swing their legs as high with each step uphill as lankier people do, Higgins and Ruff reported in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
The pair tested the idea by simulating the efficiency of walking in different environments. They also found corroborating evidence in mountain-dwelling gazelles, which tend to have shorter lower legs than their counterparts living on smooth terrain. The relationship holds up for gazelles living in both cold and warm environments.
The Scrambler Man scenario is an elaborate hypothesis that?s difficult to test. One problem is that tectonic activity, volcanoes and other geological forces continue to mold Africa?s landscape, so it?s hard to reconstruct exactly what the topography was like millions of years ago. But throwing out new ideas???even outlandish ones???is the only way to advance a discipline like human evolution, where controlled laboratory experiments are impossible.?
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