BBC Wildlife Magazine

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1 CHIMPANZEES (Pan troglodytes) Males are known to kill newborn infants that don’t belong to them2 LIONS (Panthera leo) When a new male takes over a pride he commonly kills any existing cubs3 HIPPOPOTAMUS (Hippopotamus amphibius) Eat other’s corpses

Futurity

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As female wolf spiders in a warming Arctic grow larger and produce more offspring, increased competition triggers more cannibalism, researchers say. That in turn reduces the number of young spiders that survive to adulthood. “Although cannibalism is

MotorTrend

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The Oregon Trail gets all the attention, but far more Americans emigrated on the lesser-known California Trail headed toward what would become the Golden State. Many wealthier Eastern Americans traveled by sailing around Cape Horn to San Francisco. T

Wild West

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Dating from 1858, the redbrick building at 914 Penn St. in St. Joseph, Missouri, is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places—and for good reason. It once housed horses at the starting point of the legendary Pony Express mail service. T

Wild West

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In 1900 Jim Gatchell opened a Buffalo, Wyo., drugstore naturally named the Buffalo Pharmacy. It quickly became the town’s social hub, drawing settlers, cowboys, cattle barons, Army scouts and lawmen. Gatchell was not only a respected businessman but

Nautilus

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Out in the clear waters near the Great Barrier Reef, a common blanket octopus male swims toward a female. This male need not worry about showing his brightest colors or engaging in a showy battle of strength in hopes of winning the female’s permissio

MotorTrend

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The Oregon Trail gets all the attention, but far more Americans emigrated on the lesser-known California Trail headed toward what would become the Golden State. Many wealthier Eastern Americans traveled by sailing around Cape Horn to San Francisco. T

Wild West

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Sunny California? So it would be for thousands of American emigrants who trod, rode or drove wagons west along the 1,600-mile route from the banks of the Missouri River. But one luckless party late to cross the Sierra Nevada in 1846–47 met a dismal w

Family Tree

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Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, a Spanish explorer, claims Texas for Spain Spain begins to colonize Texas Spain establishes missions and presidios in earnest Mexico wins independence from Spain Stephen F. Austin’s “Old 300” settle in Texas, among the large

Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and Children

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Hundreds of thousands of people traveling in wagons, on horseback, and on foot pushing handcarts headed into the American West in the 1800s. Until the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, different routes brought emigrants to di

Wild West

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Colonel George Washington Miller, a Kentucky-born Confederate veteran, founded the 101 Ranch in Indian Territory (present-day north central Oklahoma) in 1893. After his death in 1903, his sons Joseph, Zachary and George Jr. took over operation of the

Wild West

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Highly regarded California historian and author William Boyd Secrest, 89, a lifelong resident of Fresno who specialized in writing about the outlaws, lawmen and Indians of his home state, died on May 8, 2019. Born on March 14, 1930, Secrest served wi

MotorTrend

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Photographs William Walker It was oddly appropriate that our migratory party of eight would suffer a wagon calamity on the California Trail. It’s a fate that befell many of the Gold Rush pioneers and other westward travelers whose tracks we’d been fo

Wild West

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On a spring trapping expedition in 1833 Kit Carson and five handpicked men were en route to the southwest corner of what would become Colorado when set upon by 200 Comanches. With no chance of escape, the trappers drew their knives, slit the throats

NPR

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Archaeological records show ancient humans sometimes ate each other. A new study suggests that hunting and eating other humans cost too much effort to be a regular thing. So why'd they do it?

How It Works

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Before there were dinosaurs, there were trilobites brutally biting each other on the Cambrian seafloor. New research has revealed that these armoured predators didn’t only hunt smaller and weaker animals for food, but would occasionally take bites ou

Futurity

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Adult male white-spotted bush frogs are the sole caregivers of their offspring, devotedly guarding their fertilized eggs from cannibalistic male frogs and other predators, a new study shows. The frog, Raochestes chalazodes, was presumed extinct until

Family Tree

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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explores San Diego Bay, the first European to do so Spanish priests found the first mission in Alta California Mexico (then including modern California) gains independence from Spain Revolutionaries declare an independent “Bea

Sporting Rifle

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Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout, big game hunter, world-travelling adventurer and distinguished soldier. Burnham was born on a Sioux Indian reservation in Minnesota. At three months he luckily su

NPR

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California is expected to begin easing sweeping water use and drought restrictions after an extraordinary winter of storms. But a fierce debate rages over whether the rules should become permanent.

Los Angeles Times

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The snow piling onto the Sierra Nevada could be considered more of a snow pile-on at this point. That's because several feet of white powder have accumulated across the range since the beginning of the month, adding to what has become one of the most

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

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WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY: Peter Stokes There’s a reason the road movie was invented in America – their roads. They’re big and wide and they go on for ever, sucking you in so that you never want to stop riding. But I don’t think my pillion had the same ide

Wild West

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The Little Snake Valley, one of Wyoming’s best-kept secrets, may be on the road to nowhere but is well worth a stop, in no small part because of the Little Snake River Museum, in Savery. American Indians, explorers, trappers, miners and cattlemen all

All About History

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What was the Treaty of Tordesillas? This document divided up the globe in 1494 between the superpowers of the day, Spain and Portugal. The line of demarcation, or meridian, ran 370 leagues (1,200 miles) west of the Cape Verdes islands. The intention

The Atlantic

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“Go on—eat it.” With these words, the 16-year-old vegetarian protagonist in Julia Ducournau’s Raw is urged to consume meat by her older sister and classmates at her new veterinary school. When Justine (Garance Marillier) refuses, her sister Alexia fo

The Great Outdoors

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WITH OUR FIRST few steps on the High Sierra Trail, into the dappled sun of a mountainous pine forest, it was remarkable how simple everything suddenly seemed. It had taken months of planning and preparation, a big chunk of money, hours of painstaking

Wild West

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Texas author Jerry Lobdill (left) has earned the Wild West History Association’s Six-Shooter Award for best general Western article for “How Jim Miller Killed Pat Garrett,” which ran in the August 2018 issue of Wild West. Connecting the dots between

All About History

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Empress Eudocia specifically married Romanos on the understanding that the Byzantine army needed to be rebuilt and his military expertise were required to achieve this. However, his short three-year reign was a calamitous failure that ended in his ov

Union of Concerned Scientists

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Today’s snow survey confirms abundant snow in the Sierra Nevada. But, early snowmelt will cause flooding and require reservoirs to spill excess water that could threaten safety of California dams in the weeks to come. It’s time to stop looking up to

Wild West

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Although I am 90 and retired from writing many years ago, I have maintained interest in your excellent coverage of America’s Wild West. Your August 2018 issue aroused my interest as no other issue has, because my father’s family lived through those r