Humans have come a long way since keeping cave bears at bay with a spear. Most people today do not fear getting jumped by wildlife, even though nonhuman animals contribute to nearly a million human deaths every year, mostly through disease transmission and snakebite. The deadliest are not necessarily the animals getting the most attention. […]

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Indiana Jones is the quintessential adventurer, and you can trace much of that reputation back to Raiders of the Lost Ark. This debut film begins with the archaeologist exploring a South American jungle. He enters a rundown temple to find a golden idol, but removing the artifact triggers the temple’s collapse. The most imposing obstacle […]

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Science fiction has long imagined alien landscapes, apocalyptic disasters, and monstrous ecosystems. Yet some of the strangest scenarios ever conceived didn’t originate in a writer’s imagination. They actually happened here on Earth. Buried beneath the crust and preserved throughout the fossil record is evidence of a planetary history far stranger than the world we know […]

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