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Sarah Laskow

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Meet the Man Who Wants to Make Eating Shad a Fad Again

Canned and smoked, the bony fish is delicious, says Seattle's Warner Lew.

Found: A Giant Terra-Cotta Head

A controversial Russian bridge-building project uncovered this sculpture.

Found: The Earliest Color Footage of the White House

It features Herbert Hoover playing with a six-pound medicine ball.

Found: A Giant Metal Die in an Idaho Lake

Floodwaters cast it on the shore.

The Case for Making European Boundary Stones Into a World Heritage Site

Could surveying be recognized as one of the world's wonders?

Found: An Unusually Situated Bat Cave

The cave is large for Alberta's boreal forest.

Found: Rocks Formed From Earth’s Earliest Crust

Life on Earth is tough, even for rocks.

The Invisible Unmarried Mothers of Ireland

For seven decades, thousands of pregnant Irish women were sent into a kind of captivity.

Found: Golden Coins Hidden in a Crusader Shipwreck

The ship may have been fleeing the Holy Land after the Crusaders' last stand.

Most American Cities Once Had Red-Light Districts

But they didn't last long.

Found: The Oldest Plant Fossil Ever Discovered

It looks like red algae.

Found: The World's First Known Fluorescent Frog

It is tiny and polka-dotted!

The Enduring Mystery of James A. Garfield's Immigration Scandal

Instead of emails, there was the Morey letter.

Found: An Increasing Number of Great White Sharks Off Cape Cod

"The population may be large," one expert said.

The Unsung Delight of a Well-Designed Endpaper

They're an art form all their own.

Found: A Colossal Statue of Ramses II Hiding Under a Cairo Street

Egypt's antiquities ministry is calling it one of the most important archaeological finds ever.

Found: Time Crystals, a New Phase of Matter

Pretty pretty cool.

The 4 Places on Earth to Look for the Earliest Evidence of Life

It's hard to find rocks more than 3.6 billion years old.

Found, By a Danish Schoolboy: A Crashed WWII Plane in His Family's Field

As a joke, his father had suggested he look for it.

Found: A Treasure Trove of Candy Wrappers Dating Back to the Depression

They were hidden in a circulation chamber in an old Chicago theater.

The Original Hidden Picture Artists Were Dutch Masters

Finding Beyoncé is fun, but so are the minds of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch.

Found: A Turtle With 915 Coins in Its Belly

His name means "piggy bank."

The Scandalous Flap Books of 16th-Century Venice

Cheeky pages revealed more than their drawings initially let on.

Found: Recipes From 1793 for Calves' Heads and Pigs' Feet

A Georgian cookbook was hiding in an abbey's private library.