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The original was posted on /r/funny by /u/Rex_Mundi on 2025-04-12 15:32:00+00:00.

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Hopefully that title wasn't too clickbait, here is the article and details.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-africa-bird-island-eastern-cape-helicopter-crash-penguin/

Tldr:

South Africa helicopter crash blamed on penguin in cardboard box that hit pilot's controls

Everyone was ok:

The aircraft sustained substantial damage but the pilot and passengers were uninjured, according to the incident report. The penguin was also unharmed, the report noted.

How it happened:

The pilot and passengers were conducting an aerial survey flight of an island off South Africa's Eastern Cape on January 19, 2025. The helicopter safely landed on Bird Island. Before departing, one of the passengers, who the incident report referred to as a "specialist," asked that they transport one of the penguins on the island back with them. The pilot agreed, and the penguin was placed in a cardboard box.

When the helicopter was at an altitude of around 50 feet, the cardboard box slid off the passenger's lap -- onto the pilot's cyclic pitch control lever, the incident report said. The helicopter rolled to the right. The pilot could not recover, the incident report said. As the aircraft descended, the main rotor blades of the helicopter struck the ground, and the helicopter landed on its side, about 60 feet from where it had taken off.

A more casual article:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/helicopter-crash-blamed-on-unsecured-penguin-in-a-box/

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Until now, very few DNA samples have surpassed the 100,000-year threshold due to preservation challenges. By recovering DNA from mammoth specimens spanning over more than a million years, this study showcases the importance of temporal sampling to characterize the evolutionary history of species.

By analyzing these new mitogenomes alongside over 200 previously published mammoth mitogenomes, the researchers were able to find that diversification events across mammoth lineages seem to coincide with well-described demographic changes during the Early and Middle Pleistocene.

Their findings support an ancient Siberian origin for major mammoth lineages and reveal how shifts in population dynamics might have contributed to the expansion and contraction of distinct genetic clades.

Their results confirm previous research, showing that mammoths from around a million years ago do not closely resemble later mammoths.

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I have been struggling with my mental health this week and seeing her really helped me. She seemed to pick up on it and was being extra playful and affectionate.