Should we get lobsters high before they are eaten? Plus, rampaging Mormon crickets, sick astronauts; James Cameron on the Titanic sub disaster
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK THIESSEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | | It’s a debilitating hand condition (represented above) often known as Viking’s Disease—and sufferers can blame it on our Neanderthal kin from tens of thousands of years ago.
A new study reveals that two genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals are among the most important risk factors. It’s not the first disease passed down by our extinct hominin cousins. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY GABRIEL SCARLETT, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT CLARK, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | | Did ’the Indiana Jones effect’ ruin archaeology? The field is in the spotlight again with next week’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the end of a saga that began with 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. “I guess we made archaeology look like fun,” Harrison Ford tells us. “But—and I mean this in the nicest possible way—I don’t take any personal [credit].” (Pictured above, an archaeologist in a familiar hat works on excavating the remains of a child at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site in Peru.) | | | |
 | | LEFT: PHOTOGRAPH BY GREG LECOEUR, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION; RIGHT: ©DISNEY | | | What is Ursula? At first glance, you may call The Little Mermaid villain an octopus. Some may call her a squid—but she’s much more than her limbs, and the tentacled character shares characteristics with multiple sea creatures. (Above left: Disney animators originally looked to a variety of sea creatures for inspiration, including lionfish. Right: Disney artwork shows an early rendition of Ursula with a lionfish-like appearance.) | | | |
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