Tag: Travel & Discovery

Dutch Photographer Captures Adorable Ground Squirrels Delicately Sniffing Flowers in Fantasy-Like Landscapes

January 9, 2022
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While we humans may fancy ourselves leading very exciting lives, spending our days scrolling through social media and texting leisurely, sometimes animals may teach us a thing or two about enjoying the simple things in life—to slow down and smell the roses as it were. Well, one animal photographer from the Netherlands is invoking this…

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‘IndividuWhale’ Introduces Users to ‘Solé,’ ‘Scarlett,’ and Other Gray Whales Along The Oregon Coast

January 7, 2022
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Oregon State University marine ecologist Leigh Torres has studied the gray whales along the Oregon coast for more than six years. That raises a natural question: does she have a favorite? “I like that one whale, Solé,” she told The Epoch Times. “She has a really distinct place she likes to be and foraging style.”…

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Now Active-Duty Military, Veterans, And Gold Star Families Can Visit National Parks and Other Federal Lands For Free For Life

January 6, 2022
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The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed into law on Dec. 27 after passing the House and the Senate, includes the Alexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks (VIP) Act, which lets military veterans, active-duty service members, and Gold Star families access the United States’ National Parks and other federal recreational lands without paying a dime….

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Paleontologists Extract 30 Preserved Titanosaur Eggs From 2-Ton Fossilized Dinosaur Nest in Northern Spain

January 6, 2022
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A team of paleontologists last fall completed the extraction of two dinosaur nests containing some 30 fossilized titanosaur eggs at a site in Loarre, in northern Spain—the continuation of an earlier 2020 campaign. The fossil gathering project was led by the Aragosaurus-IUCA Group of the University of Zaragoza and the Portuguese NOVA University Lisbon, with…

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General Motors Reveals Luxury Personal Self-Driving Electric Cadillac

January 6, 2022
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General Motors (GM) unveiled a new personal self-driving electric concept car from its luxury brand Cadillac on Wednesday, while the company’s CEO said she anticipates introducing a personal autonomous vehicle “as soon as the middle of the decade.” The electric vehicle, part of Cadillac’s Halo Concept Portfolio, was revealed during the CES technology show in Las Vegas…

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Adventurous Family Spends the Pandemic Travelling on the Seas

January 4, 2022
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Alex and Kristi Wynn began their life’s adventure at the tender age of 14 when they were students at Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda, Florida. After temporarily separating to go to different colleges, they came back together and now, after 12 years of marriage, the pandemic spurred them to live on the ocean aboard…

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Scientists ‘Virtually Unwrap’ Exceptional 3,500-Year-Old Mummy of Amenhotep I With CT Scans, Revealing Ancient Mystery

January 4, 2022
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A wrapped mummy of novel quality and exceptional appearance, whose burial rites were preserved from millennia ago, has now been unwrapped—not by hand but virtually, using cutting-edge CT scans and 3D modeling software—revealing mysteries of the ancient kings of Egypt. In 1902, among the royal mummies moved to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was Amenhotep I,…

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Mountain Climber Finds 6,000 Gemstones Worth $340,000 on French Mountain Where Plane Crashed in 1966

January 4, 2022
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In the decades after the 1966 crash of an Air India plane on Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France, the mountain’s ice and snow have been yielding bits of debris, such as photos, old newspapers, and in 1986 even a piece of a landing gear. Then in 2013, a French mountain climber in his 20s made…

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VIDEOS: Diver Captures ‘Insane’ Moment 20 Whale Sharks in Feeding Frenzy Gulp Plankton Beside Boat

January 1, 2022
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One lucky photographer, Martin Strmiska, 41, who spends time photographing underwater paradises in the Maldives, captured the sight of a lifetime—a sight even experienced divers rarely witness. While on an excursion diving with tourists last year, at around 10 or 11 p.m., they witnessed a feeding frenzy of approximately 20 whale sharks beside their boat….

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Lost 2,000-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Found Being Used as Coffee Table in Park Avenue Apartment, Returned to Museum

December 30, 2021
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A Roman mosaic dating back to Emperor Caligula had somehow, reportedly, found its way into an art dealer’s Park Avenue apartment, where for the last 45 years it held up cups of coffee for her and her guests. For decades, Helen Fioratti—so the story goes—owned the opulent, colored-stone piece after it went missing from a…

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