Plus, Rome’s most dangerous woman; sundowning; glow-in-the-dark mushrooms; R.I.P. Wayne Shorter
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The word “equestrian”—and even the Latin variant of "horse"—can be traced to these early Europeans.
New evidence from ancient skeletons (above) shows the earliest signs of horseback riding among these humans, who giddy-upped some 5,000 years ago. These early cowpokes, thundering through present-day Europe, didn't look like Annie Oakley or John Wayne—but they likely used horses for advantages in herding, exploration, and trading. How did researchers make the connection from these old bones?
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| | Georgia’s first national park? Seth Clark (left) and Tracie Revis are part of an effort with bipartisan support to designate a sacred Indigenous site as a U.S. national park, Nat Geo reports. The Ocmulgee Mounds would be co-managed by the Muscogee Nation, a tribe forcibly removed from their ancestral lands more than 180 years ago.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS JOHNS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Hello cheetah: We’re celebrating World Wildlife Day with this image of a cub in Botswana's Okavango Delta. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the treaty that regulates the global wildlife trade. Ivonne Higuero, the treaty's secretary general, tells Dina Fine Maron of the importance of preserving wildlife to the ecosystem and to human health. ”It continues to be a challenge to convince people this requires major investments,” Higuero says.
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Today’s soundtrack: Nefertiti, Wayne Shorter R.I.P.
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