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43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (369+ words) It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem. It would probably be pretty alarming to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the site of a volcanic…...
After 96 Years, Archaeologists Finally Found the Missing Half of a Legendary Statue
3+ week, 2+ day ago (277+ words) Ramesses II is whole again. Many treasures of the region’s illustrious past were known to be buried in the surrounding desert, and while Roeder’s discovery proved remarkable, the rest of the enormous statue he found remained lost to time…for…...