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Kristin Hugo

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California, New York, Wyoming
As seen in: The MIT Press, Medium, OneZero, Yahoo Life, Business Insider, Business Insider Singapore, HuffPost, The Independent (UK), Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, National Geographic and
Covers:  Animals, Biology, Nature, Bones
💀 Science journalist 📝 Writing a Book on Carcasses 🦌 Nature & Animals 🦴Words in Nat Geo, Newsweek, PBS Newshour, Bay Nature+ ⛰

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Kristin Hugo is a science journalist currently working on a book called Carcass: On the Afterlives of Animal Bodies, to be published by MIT Press.

Kristin has written for National Geographic, Newsweek, PBS Newshour, Bay Nature Magazine, and more. She holds an MS in Science Journalism from Boston University and a BA in Journalism from CSU Northridge.

Kristin moves frequently, but may be in California or Wyoming at the time that you are reading this.

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Siberian cave filled with mammoth, rhino and bear bones is ancient hyena lair

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By Kristin Hugo
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bones and teeth strewn inside a cave bones and teeth strewn inside a cave Siberian locals have discovered an incredible prehistoric time capsule in what paleontologists believe is the largest ancient hyena lair ever found in Asia. The cave contained a whole menagerie of animal bones that had been undisturbed for about 42,000 years.
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25 million-year-old 'slasher' dolphin with weird teeth discovered in museum collection

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By Kristin Hugo
| Yahoo Life Verified
The skull of the ancient dolphin Nihohae matakoi, which had jutting out teeth at the end of its snout, on a black background The skull of the ancient dolphin Nihohae matakoi, which had jutting out teeth at the end of its snout, on a black background A bizarre predatory dolphin that lived 25 million years ago and had long, sharp teeth jutting straight out from its snout has been discovered in a museum collection in New Zealand.
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PolitiFact - No, a traffic management plan is not a ‘climate lockdown’ to confine people to their neighborhoods

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By Kristin Hugo
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The claims on social media paint a dystopian picture: Residents of a county in England, the  claim states, "will be confined to their local neighborhood and have to ask permission to leave at all to ‘save the planet.’" However, the actual proposal in Oxfordshire doesn’t stop anyone from going anywhere and isn’t focused on climate change. In fact, it’s similar to rules already in effect in other places.
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