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19 hours ago · This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
4 days ago · Museum - Natural History, Science, Education: Museums of natural history and natural science are concerned with the natural world; their collections may contain specimens of birds, mammals, insects, plants, rocks, minerals, and fossils.
3 days ago · There have been at least five mass extinctions in the history of life on earth, and four in the last 350 million years in which many species have disappeared in a relatively short period of geological time.
2 days ago · The founders knew, beyond a doubt, they must either “ Unite or Die .”. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and the rest felt the guns of disunion and civil war pointing at ...
7 hours ago · How and why, the author writes, is “one of the great mysteries” of shark paleontology. “Today, sharks include some of the weirdest, wildest, and most spectacular creatures on our planet ...
5 days ago · My 2021 book The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press), winner of the 2023 Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, tracks the long history of the human relationship with water and soil, and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human ...
2 days ago · A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.
