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The discovery of an ancient giant panda skull has confirmed its bamboo diet dates back more than 2 million years and may have played a key part in its survival.[:

A Chinese-US research team reports its results today following studies on a fossil skull found in south China's Cuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2001.

The six fossils unearthed in Jinyin Cave are dated between 2.4 and 2 million years ago, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an influential US journal.

Jin Changzhu, of the chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and lead author of the paper, said the smaller fossil skull indicates the giant pandas were about a third smaller than today's pandas.

Researchers knew the panda reached its maximum size about 500,000 years ago, when it peaked ,and then gradually became smaller.

Jin, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate paleontology and Paleoanthropology attached to the CAS, said the size _ was a basic rule of evolution.

"A species tends to grow bigger when it reaches the peak of its population , but becomes smaller when numbers decline," he said.

The dental remains of the skull, which is the oldest giant panda skull ever found, are similar to today's pandas, indicating the type of teeth that could munch mountains of bamboo. A panda can eat up to 40kg of bamboo per day.

Paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon, the US co-author at the University of lowa, said the panda's focus on bamboo could have helped it survive all these years.

"Once an animal begins to rely on a common and stable food source, such as bamboo, it tends to evolve a larger body size," he said. "As individuals of the evolving species grow bigger, they have a better chance not to be eaten by predators due to their larger body size."

1. was something found?
2. what?
3. more than one?
4. how many?
5. where were they discovered?
6. how old are they?
7. who reported this?
8. is an anthropologist mentioned?
9. named?
10. does he have another profession?
11. what?
12. where does he work?
13. did he say something?
14. what?
15. how many years?
16. when was the specimen discovered?
17. in what country?
18. in the Northern section of the the country?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. yes
2. fossils
3. Yes
4. six
5. in Jinyin Cave
6. they are between 2.4 and 2 million years old
7. the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
8. Yes
9. Russell Ciochon
10. Yes
11. co-author
12. the University of lowa
13. Yes
14. that the panda's focus on bamboo could have helped it survive all these years.
15. more than 2 million
16. 2001.
17. China
18. No

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A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart. Helen Felumlee, died at 92 on April 12. Her husband, 91-year-old Kenneth Felumlee, died the next morning.

The couple's eight children say the two had been inseparable since meeting as teenagers, once sharing the bottom of a bunk bed on a ferry rather than sleeping on night apart.

They remained deeply in love until the very end, even eating breakfast together while holding hands, said their daughter, Linda Cody. "We knew when one went, the other was going to go," she said. According to Cody, about 12 hours after Helen died, Kenneth looked at his children and said, "Mon's dead." He quickly began to fade, surrounded by 24 of his closest family members and friends when he died the next morning. "He was ready," Cody said, "He just didn't want to leave her here by herself."

Son Dick said his parents died of old age, surrounded by family.

The pair had known each other for several years when they eloped in Newport across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, on Feb. 20, 1994. At two days shy of his 21stbirthday, Kenneth-who went by Kenny-was too young to marry in Ohio. "He couldn't wait.' son Jim said.

Kenneth worked as a railroad car inspector and mechanic before becoming a mail carrier for the Post Office. He was active in the church as a Sunday teacher.

Helen stayed at home, not only cooking and cleaning for her own family but also for other families in need in the area. She taught Sunday school, too, but was known more for her greeting card ministry, sending cards for birthdays, sympathy and the holidays to everyone in her community, each with a personal note inside. "She kept Hallmark in business," daughter-in-law Debbie joked.

When Kenneth retired in 1983 and the children began to leave the house, the Felumlees began to explore their love of travel, visiting almost all 50 states by bus. "He didn't want to fly anywhere because you couldn't see anything as you were going," Jim said.

Although both experienced declining health in recent years, Cody said, each tried to stay strong for the other. "That's what kept them going," she said.

1. How long were Kenneth and Helen married?
2. Were they very close?
3. How did they show that they were in love?
4. How old were they when they passed?
5. Did they die close in time to each other?
6. How far apart?
7. Where were they when it happened?
8. Was anyone else there?
9. Who?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 70 years
2. Yes
3. held hands at breakfast every morning even
4. 91 and 92
5. Ye
6. 15 hours
7. Home
8. Yes
9. family

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The Independent is a British online newspaper. Established in 1986 as an independent national morning newspaper published in London, it was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev in 2010. The last printed edition of "The Independent" was published Saturday 20 March 2016, leaving only its digital editions.

Nicknamed the "Indy", it began as a broadsheet, but changed to tabloid (compact) format in 2003. Until September 2011, the paper described itself on the banner at the top of every newspaper as "free from party political bias, free from proprietorial influence". It tends to take a pro-market stance on economic issues.

The daily edition was named "National Newspaper of the Year" at the 2004 British Press Awards.

In June 2015, it had an average daily circulation of just below 58,000, 85 per cent down from its 1990 peak, while the Sunday edition had a circulation of just over 97,000.

Launched in 1986, the first issue of "The Independent" was published on 7 October in broadsheet format. It was produced by Newspaper Publishing plc and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three partners were former journalists at "The Daily Telegraph" who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell's ownership. Marcus Sieff was the first chairman of Newspaper Publishing, and Whittam Smith took control of the paper.

1. What publication is this about?
2. What type of publication is it?
3. Where was it started?
4. When?
5. Was it always online?
6. What company ran it starting in 1997?
7. What's its nickname?
8. In 2015 which had higher circulation, daily or Sunday?
9. How much lower was daily circulation down from 1990?
10. How much was circulation down since 1990?
11. What award did it get in 2004?
12. Who gave that award?
13. What year?
14. How many people founded it?
15. Where did they work before?
16. Why did they leave there?
17. Who bought it in 2010?
18. Where is he from?
19. Is there still a print edition?
20. How does it describe itself?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. The Independent
2. online newspaper
3. London
4. 1986
5. no
6. Independent News & Media
7. the "Indy"
8. Sunday
9. 85 per cent
10. 85 per cent
11. "National Newspaper of the Year"
12. British Press Awards
13. 2004
14. Three
15. "The Daily Telegraph"
16. unknown
17. Alexander Lebedev
18. Russia
19. no
20. "free from party political bias, free from proprietorial influence"