A stone-age tool and a very close look at a porcupine

Science News Quiz #11 (Feb 2024): Three Questions

This week: A mysterious ancient tool, the trouble with reading from screens, and a close-up look at porcupine quills.

1 / 3

Can you guess what this 35,000-40,000 year-old tool is thought to have been used for? It's about 20 cm long.

Making rope out of reeds. Twist them together, feed them through the holes, and unite strands into a large coil on the other side.

Making music. Blow into the holes and sounds are produced.

Making babies. It's a prehistoric "marital aid" that allowed men and women to keep things aligned during intercourse.

2 / 3

True of false: If you're reading something on a piece of paper, you remember the details better than if you read it on a screen.

True

False

3 / 3

A new paper looks at how the shapes of stabby-bits differ across the diversity of organisms that stab. Here you see five "stingers." Which one belongs to a porcupine? (left to right, they're numbered 1,2,3,4,5)

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The average score is 73%

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