Discovery of fossilized hand may unlock a 1.5-million-year-old mystery

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...
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The Empire That Got High: How Psychedelic Beer Helped Build the Wari Civilization

A new study published in the Revista de Arqueología Americana suggests that the Wari, who flourished from about A.D. 600 to ...

How orogeny and plants shaped Earth's paleoclimate via silicate weathering

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Inside Richard Leakey's discovery of an ancient human ancestor skull—the same his parents chased

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...
Outdoor Life

The Best Tree Saddles of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

The author testing the Black Belt Ultimate. Photo by Erik Barber I’ve been hunting exclusively from a tree saddle since 2018, when I was lucky enough to kill a beautiful 8-point buck on opening day of ...
Arizona Daily Star

Ancient aquifers are dropping as Tucson's suburbs pump groundwater

Literature promoting the SaddleBrooke Ranch development west of Oracle touts feature after feature — high Sonoran Desert terrain with beautiful mountain views, “multimillion-dollar country club ...