History of Germany in Germany was the location where the first ever non-modern human fossil was discovered and recognised in 1856; the new species of human was named Neanderthal man. The Neanderthal 1 fossils are now known to be 40,000 years old. At a similar age, evidence of modern humans 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 Löwenmensch figurine which is the oldest uncontested figurative art ever discovered, and the 35,000-year-old Venus of Hohle Fels which is
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