Plus: Hitler's atomic bomb; a dinosaur's last meal; a most unusual lobster
| Extraordinary people, discoveries, and places | |
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| | | The last meal of a prehistoric beast, preserved in stunning detail | | One summer day, an armored dinosaur ambled through the remains of a wildfire. A short time later, it was dead, swept out to sea where it remained entombed for 110 million years. Now, the best-preserved fossil of its kind ever discovered is providing an unprecedented look at the world it inhabited, right down to the charcoal bits it swallowed. | | | |
 | PHOTOGRAPH BY HERO FILM/RONALD GRANT ARCHIVE, ALAMY
| | | Inside the daring mission that thwarted a Nazi atomic bomb | | On February 27, 1942, nine saboteurs scaled a cliff in the middle of the night to blow up a Nazi-controlled heavy water plant in Norway. Hollywood turned the story of the attack into a sappy action-movie-on-skis. The true story is both more complicated—and more compelling. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ARALDO DE LUCA | | | This exquisite tomb was missing its mummy | | Discovered in 1817, the tomb known as KV17 was filled with extraordinary artifacts, from images of ancient deities to scenes from the legendary Book of Gates. But the pharaoh it was built for was nowhere to be found. Read on for the story of how the tomb was discovered—by a former circus strongman and gangs of tomb raiders—and how its pharaoh was lost and found. | | | |
 | PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
| | | Cracking the secrets of Old Faithful's geyser eggs | | A trove of these ultra-rare geologic oddities lies scattered in the colorful thermal pools surrounding Yellowstone's Old Faithful geyser, but it wasn't until a few years ago that geologists were allowed to study them. Their analysis—of a single egg—is providing new insights into the egg's delicate structures, and could hold clues about the iconic geyser's past and future. | | | |
 | PHOTOGRAPH BY DREW RUSH, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
| | | Once thought to be loners, cougars reveal a rich, hierarchical society | | "For more than 60 years of intensive research ... we have said that [cougars] are solitary, robotic killing machines. Instead, what we have unveiled is a secretive animal with a complex social system completely built on reciprocity." The shocking find upends commonly held beliefs about one of the Americas' most iconic big cats. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBINSON RUSSELL | | | |
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