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Overhunting led to smaller and smaller walruses, until the Viking colony on Greenland became unviable.
vikings

How Vikings Hunted Themselves Off of Greenland

Even marauding Norsemen can be guilty of entrepreneurial overreach.
Isaac Schultz January 15, 2020
A cultural fire in Martu country, Western Australia.
fire fighters

How Aboriginal Hunting and 'Cool Burns' Prevent Australian Wildfires

The current crisis has pushed the country to consider cultural burning.
Reina Gattuso January 14, 2020
The Newfie appetite for bologna is helping control a destructive moose population.
food

Why Newfoundland Is Turning Its Moose Into Bologna

And salami. And pepperoni.
Darcy Rhyno January 3, 2020
The cord and unfinished longbow found on Ötzi, who was killed in Europe's Ötztal Alps over five millennia ago.
mummies

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.
Isaac Schultz December 31, 2019
"The Men of Ness," after a completed hunt in 1972.
islands

The Gaelic World’s Last Great Bird Hunt

Just 10 men are permitted to hunt and pickle 2,000 young seabirds on a desolate island each year.
Luke Fater September 27, 2019
As omnivores, bear meat and fat typically take on the flavor of their diet.
food

Why Bear Fat Makes for Better Baking

This niche practice was commonplace in North America for centuries.
Luke Fater September 20, 2019
A sheep and a bear square off in a 2018 protest in France.
hunting

In the Pyrenees Mountains, It’s Bears vs. Sheep vs. Humans

A bear named Claverina has stoked an age-old debate about where predators belong.
Sabrina Imbler September 3, 2019
Chadron, Nebraska

Museum of the Fur Trade

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.
A golden eagle in flight.
poison

The First Golden Eagle Tagged in Yellowstone Was Poisoned by Lead Shot

Hopefully it wasn't all in vain.
Evan Nicole Brown April 16, 2019
Squirrel hunting in Ville Platte, Louisiana.
food

The Cajun Town That Shuts Down for 'Squirrel Day'

Hunting season starts with a mass migration to the woods.
Jordan LaHaye March 11, 2019
Vicuña at the Pampas Galeras reserve.
Lucanas Province, Peru

Pampa Galeras National Reserve

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.
The central structure, known as Triangolo Barberini.
Rome, Italy

Triangolo Barberini

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.
Heard Island.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia

Heard and McDonald Islands

Australia's only active volcanoes and highest peak are located on these remote islands thousands of miles away from the mainland.
One of the Schöningen spears in 1997.
hunting

Neanderthals Had Advanced Hunting Technology

Contrary to what popular opinion might assume.
Matthew Taub January 25, 2019
Inner courtyard of Jagdschloss Kranichstein.
Darmstadt, Germany

Museum Jagdschloss Kranichstein

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.
The village of Ignaluk.
Diomede, Alaska

Little Diomede Island

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.
<em>Hunting Dog and Rabbit</em>.
animals

How Long Have Dogs Been Helping Us Hunt?

New findings in Jordan indicate that they've been assisting us for nearly 12,000 years.
Matthew Taub January 16, 2019
Caymans the horse, Floki the eagle, and me toward the end of my lesson at Dartmoor Hawking.
animals

Learning the Ancient Art of Horseback Falconry

I spent a day with one of the few people on the planet still teaching the sport.
Kerry Wolfe December 20, 2018