Quirks and Quarks

A sabretooth hypercarnivore, pack hunting spiders, urban trees and invasive insects, testing a baleen whale’s hearing, tire rubber pollution, clothes that listen to you and lithium mining in Ontario.

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Paleontologists identify the first sabre-toothed mammalian hypercarnivore; A rare social spider hunts in packs in order to kill large prey; The urban tree canopy is facing a worst-case scenario in the near future; How do you test how well a whale hears?; Rubber dust from car tires can poison freshwater fish; Your favourite shirt might soon be listening to your hearbeat; Canada has lithium in Northwestern, Ontario. What is being done to mine it?
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Quirks and QuarksBy CBC