We have clues about where it went. Plus, how iron was discovered; kidnapped apes; protecting wild rivers
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| | What happened to England’s first colony in America, and the little girl named Virginia Dare?
For centuries, the main trace was three letters carved on a tree. Did it signify the place colonists had moved to or the Native Americans they had encountered?
It would be two decades before the first permanent English colony would take hold, but archeologists and others are still investigating the fate of Virginia Dare and her vanished community on Roanoke Island. They have a few theories.
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Clues: At top, a depiction of Virginia Dare’s mother; a stone that may provide a clue about the Lost Colony. Above, backlighting this 16th-century map of what is now coastal North Carolina may have provided another clue—a star-shaped symbol under a patch that could have marked fleeing colonists’s new home. Read more. | | | |
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY SAMANTHA REINDERS, THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX | | It’s a known problem: Great apes in Africa, like chimpanzees and gorillas, are increasingly poached for the international pet trade and zoo attractions, according to a new report (above, a chimpanzee is rescued from a smuggling operation). And people will pay a pretty penny for a stolen ape: up to $550,000, Nat Geo reports. Where do these creatures go once taken? Who’s watching? And what’s being done to stop it?
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| Mammoth ivory: When woolly mammoths roamed the Earth, ancient hunters tracked and killed them for their meat. Now, in Russia’s Arctic, people search high and low for these massive creatures' valuable tusks. (Above, a searcher removes a tusk from a frozen riverbed.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JONAS KAKO | | No dams, no mining: What if there were a national park with a wild river and only tourism is allowed? This park in Europe (pictured above) is the first of its kind. Now, conservationists around the world are looking for other rivers to be granted this same status. Where is it?
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Today’s soundtrack: River, Bishop Briggs
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