Plus, cats in the U.S. navy and our next Nat Geo quiz.
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 | PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN WITTER, WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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America often studies its settlement west as the adventurous creation of something from nothing. But the settlers plowed over thousands of burial mounds and communities, erasing centuries of Native American history.
However, in the ponds and lakes of the region, millennia-old artifacts are turning up where the farmers did not plow, opening up a new history (a recovered 3,000-year-old canoe, above). Remnants of an ancient Indigenous metropolis may sit underneath a lake in Wisconsin’s capital. What else awaits under the waters of the nation’s heartland? | | | |
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY DERON VERBECK | | Clash of the titans: Epic tussles between deep-diving sperm whales and giant squid are fodder for fantastic tales. But proof that such encounters actually happen did not exist—until now.
Photographer Deron Verbeck managed to snap photographs that revealed definitive battle scars on a seven-foot oceanic whitetip shark off Hawaii’s Kona coast. The tentacles of the massive cephalopod left golf ball-size suction marks on the skin of the shark (as seen above.)
Verbeck did not realize what he had captured with his lens four years ago until he zoomed in on the dots on his computer and saw a series of large suction rings on the shark.
“I was like, holy crap!” says Verbeck.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MATT BERTONE | | What is this thing? It has multiple eyes, boasts the common name hammerhead, can split itself in two, grow to over a foot long ... AND it can be found in your backyard. Oh, and it’s toxic. What is it?
A. A snake
B. A hammerhead eel
C. A flatworm
D. None of the above | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY PASCAL MAITRE | | | Haloed by extremism: The African nation of Niger held on while many of its neighbors became hotbeds of Islamic extremism and endured military coups. On July 27, the military toppled an elected president in this nation, where thousands of French and U.S. troops are stationed. Writing for Nat Geo, Robert Draper described the nation as long being “haloed” by instability, (Pictured above, the start of a trek across the Sahara.) | | | |
Today’s soundtrack: 6's to 9's, Big Wild (ft. Rationale)
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