A 13,600-year-old mastodon skull was uncovered in an Iowa creek, state officials announced this week.
Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist said in a social media post that archaeologists found the well-preserved skull on the side of a creek bed in Wayne County Wednesday at an excavation site they had been mining over the last 12 days.
Throughout the almost two-week dig, several mastodon bones were recovered, but the skull was something unique, as it was the “first-ever well-preserved mastodon (primarily the skull) that has been excavated in Iowa,” the post read.
What is with CBS loading a similar, but unrelated video at the top of articles lately? This happened with another story I was reading just this morning on CBS, where the video was the same type of event that the article was talking about, but from a totally different time/place.
Respect your users’ bandwidth. If you’re going to auto-play a video attached to a news article, then make sure it’s related to the article.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/
I expect that video based ads make more money than static ads in-line in the article. This the incentive to do such confusing and wasteful thing.