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Andrew McCarthy Captures the Onset of a Solar Flare
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
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A fossilised ant found in amber from the collection of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A fossilised ant has been found in amber from the collection of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Its age is approximately 40 million years. The ant proved to be a representative of the extinct species Ctenobethylus goepperti. A black fly and a fungus gnat were also found in the
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Mikhail Yakovlevich Volkov, Taxidermist of the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve
Most likely with the frame for a future figure of a tiger: the reserve is, after all, one of the world's principal centres for the study and protection of the Amur tiger Primorsky Krai, 1960s
Geography · Science · People · Nature
From June 1937 to February 1938, four Soviet researchers took part in the first expedition in history to the drifting station "North Pole-1"
The station was headed by the geophysicist Ivan Papanin; his team consisted of the meteorologist and geophysicist Yevgeny Fedorov, the radio operator Ernst Krenkel and the hydrobiologist Pyotr Shirshov. The organisation of the whole enterprise was directed by Otto Schmidt, head of the Soviet Arctic Expedition. The members of the
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The Meteorologist-Geophysicist Yevgeny Fyodorov Builds a Snow Pavilion for Magnetic Measurements on a Drifting Ice Floe in the Arctic
Faith · Madrid · Society · Nature · Ethnography
Last Saturday Spain held festivities marking the feast of Saint Anthony the Great, patron saint of domestic animals
Near Madrid, in the village of San Bartolomé de Pinares, which has a population of about 500, the rite of Las Luminarias has been held every year for centuries. Riders lead their horses through bonfires lit right in the streets; the ritual is believed to purify the animals and protect
Archive · Moscow · Nature
Gaspard, but Not Noé
In the Moscow Zoo of the 1930s, as a matter of fact, there was a pair of hippopotamuses, a male, Peter, and a female, Greta, and in 1943 they had a calf, August. Peter and Greta lived on into the 1980s. And now we know that besides them there was
Archaeology · Museums · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
For more than 70 years, bones in the collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North were mistaken for the remains of a mammoth
In 1951–1952 the anthropologist Otto Geist found these bones in the interior of Alaska and gave them to the museum, and from then until recently the exhibit was considered to be the remains of a mammoth. The situation changed in 2022, when the bones were subjected to radiocarbon dating.
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Dogs Running in the Snow, New York
A photograph by the Hungarian photographer André Kertész, 1971
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Not the gates of Hades, but a portal of lava on the stratovolcano Etna, Sicily
Photo by Franz Lazi, 1968 Among Etna's more recent notable eruptions, the one of 2 June 2025 was a palpable affair, as was the one before it, in the spring and summer of 1669, when lava flows went on for several months and reached the walls of the