Germany in the world were discovered in a coal mine in Schöningen where three 380,000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed. The Neander Valley was the location where the first ever non-modern human fossil was discovered; the new species of human was called the Neanderthal. The Neanderthal 1 fossils are known to be 40,000 years old. Evidence of modern humans, similarly dated, has been found in caves in the Swabian Jura near Ulm. The finds include 42,000-year-old bird bone and mammoth ivory flutes which are the oldest musical instruments ever found, the 40,000-year-old Ice Age Lion Man which is the oldest uncontested figurative
Invasive species in Mexico in the Bravo Valley, State of Mexico. Fish of the family "Atherinopsidae" and genus "chirostoma" are known as charal and silversides. Charal are a small fish while silversides are much larger (up to 20 cm). All "chirostoma" are endemic to the Mexican plateaus and are freshwater species. It is estimated that 18 to 20 species and various subspecies exist in the central mesa of Mexico. Charal have economic, cultural and environmental importance for Mexicans. They have been consumed in this area since pre-Spanish times, but are noticeably shrinking in the last decades, as overexploitation of bodies of water, overfishing, and