Digging for Neanderthals under a medieval Welsh castle
Unscathed by destructive Victorian-era excavations and modern tourism, Wogan Cavern may provide scientists with a glimpse into the lives of our earliest ancestors.
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Thawing permafrost is threatening Svalbard’s ‘corpse point’
Human bones and artifacts from the largest whalers’ graveyard in the archipelago are at risk of disintegrating.
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The ancient Nigerian sculptures that rewrote African history
After a fragment was found in 1943 and dated to 500 B.C., the Nok terra-cotta sculptures shook up the Eurocentric academic consensus that no advanced cultures existed in sub-Saharan Africa that early.
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After Hurricane Helene, the country’s tiniest turtle is even closer to extinction
These teensy tiny turtles of Appalachia barely survived a biblical flood. Inside the effort to build them a new home.
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Glimpsing the hidden highways of the night sky
Charting the invisible traffic patterns within one of the most congested corridors of airspace on Earth
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