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isaacschultz

Atlas Obscura Fellow 2019-2020

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The Daily Race to Find Jersey Artifacts Before the Tide Comes In

In a place that comes and goes, slow archaeological work has to be done fast.

February 27, 2020

How Reading Lava Flows Reveals a Lost Paradise

Human harm is burned into Réunion’s ecological record.

February 25, 2020

For Sale: Royally Minted Coins, Decorated With Dinosaurs

It’s change 165 million years in the making.

February 20, 2020

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For the Madagascan Aye-Aye, the Rule of Thumb Comes in Two

The extra digits are yet another of the odd animal's oddities.

February 19, 2020

See 500 Years of Artful Nature Illustrations

Over 57 million pages of wildlife are catalogued.

February 17, 2020

Why the Suez Canal Is a Superhighway for Invasive Species

And the newcomers show no signs of slowing down.

February 13, 2020

Found: The First Anglo-Saxon Building in Bath

The discovery, in a city famed for its Roman ruins, may mark the site of England’s first coronation.

February 11, 2020

See Australian Fauna in These Audubon-esque Illustrations

The 19th-century lithographs document a unique biodiversity that’s slipping away.

February 6, 2020

The Mystery of Neolithic Slovakia's Rotating Villages

It’s hard to think straight when your brain is asymmetric.

February 5, 2020

See Miami's Waterfront Through Its Midcentury Modern Lifeguard Stations

Pack your sunscreen, George Jetson.

February 3, 2020

How Bamboo Sticks Help Vietnamese Villagers Shoulder Mighty Loads

It's a matter of simple physics.

January 31, 2020

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When South Africa Was Home to the 'Firewalkers' of Karoo

The reptilian critters may not have survived, but they made sure to sign off feet first.

January 29, 2020

Utah's Great Salt Lake Could Hold Clues to Life on Mars

The mineral mirabilite is the key.

January 28, 2020

Why Trees Are the Most Reliable Historians of Early America

Dendrochronology doesn't just work on forests. It works on buildings too.

January 23, 2020

9 Years Later, Furry Friends—and Foes—Are Returning to Fukushima

Few of them seem to miss the missing humans.

January 21, 2020

Some Neanderthals Wintered in Italy, Diving for Clams

In the absence of stone tools, bivalves would have to do.

January 16, 2020

How Vikings Hunted Themselves Off of Greenland

Even marauding Norsemen can be guilty of entrepreneurial overreach.

January 15, 2020

Sold: Pierre de Coubertin’s Blueprint for the Olympics

The 14-page speech is now the world’s most expensive piece of sports memorabilia.

January 13, 2020

An Australian Researcher Is Linking Cow Moos and Moods

Their individual voices help them as a herd.

January 10, 2020

How a Japanese Family Jumpstarted Rice Farming, Deep in the Heart of Texas

It was eventually stifled by nativism and border anxiety.

January 8, 2020

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Found: The Charred Remains of a 170,000-Year-Old Meal in a South African Cave

It doesn't look like much, but it's a key step in the development of human diets.

January 7, 2020

How a 70-Year-Old Dino-Size Mystery May Have Finally Been Solved

Was it a teenage T. rex or another species entirely?

January 3, 2020

Drawing a Bead on a Mummy’s Ancient Arsenal

Ötzi’s 5,300-year-old hunting kit could offer clues about how life was lived in Copper Age Europe.

December 31, 2019

How a Cartographer Drew a Massive, Freehand Map of North America

Just ink and colored pencil, it took Anton Thomas almost five years.

December 30, 2019