The Fossil Skull That Rocked The World 100 Years Later Scientists Are Grappling With The Taung Find's Complex Colonial Legacy
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart , acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...
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“The Loneliest Road in America” is a Survival Test Across a Nearly-Empty Desert Highway
Wikimedia Commons/Famartin US Route 50, aka Highway 50, is called “The Loneliest Road in America.” The “lonely” part refers ...
New broker, new price, same Gilded Age mansion for sale in UES
A Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's Upper East Side has been relisted for $49.9 million, a significant ...
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Lexington, KY – Pedestrian Injured in Crash on S Limestone at Cooper Dr
A pedestrian was reportedly injured in a crash on South Limestone at Cooper Dr on Thursday afternoon, leading to lane | ...
These 13 national monuments may be ‘at risk’ of losing federal protections, advocates warn
The National Park Conservation Association has identified 13 national monuments it considers at risk after a recent Interior Department order.
Trump administration will consider redrawing boundaries of national monuments as part of energy push
Conservation advocates say the move shows "blatant disregard for Westerners" as monuments in Western states like Colorado and ...
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The Search to Find the Remains of Homo Erectus in a Vanishing Landscape
A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...