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Isaac Schultz

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2019

Atlas Obscura Fellow 2019-2020
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Seymour Tower at high tide, surrounded by the English Channel (La Manche).

beaches

The Daily Race to Find Jersey Artifacts Before the Tide Comes In

In a place that comes and goes, slow archaeological work has to be done fast.

By Isaac Schultz
The island's routine lava flows give researchers a number of ecological timestamps.

islands

How Reading Lava Flows Reveals a Lost Paradise

Human harm is burned into Réunion’s ecological record.

By Isaac Schultz
The Royal Mint coins—available in bronze, silver, and gold—are a testament to English paleontology.

dinosaurs

For Sale: Royally Minted Coins, Decorated With Dinosaurs

It’s change 165 million years in the making.

By Isaac Schultz
It's an aye-aye surprise! Madagascar's battiest lemur is the only primate with four thumbs.

biodiversity

For the Madagascan Aye-Aye, the Rule of Thumb Comes in Two

The extra digits are yet another of the odd animal's oddities.

By Isaac Schultz
Behold: Great Britain's red grouse.

libraries

See 500 Years of Artful Nature Illustrations

Over 57 million pages of wildlife are catalogued.

By Isaac Schultz
Matuta victor, an invasive Red Sea crab.

infrastructure

Why the Suez Canal Is a Superhighway for Invasive Species

And the newcomers show no signs of slowing down.

By Isaac Schultz
The picturesque Bath Abbey sits in the center of town. Just next to it, a king of England may have been crowned.

ruins

Found: The First Anglo-Saxon Building in Bath

The discovery, in a city famed for its Roman ruins, may mark the site of England’s first coronation.

By Isaac Schultz
The Tasmanian devil, a talisman of Australian wildlife, was catalogued and illustrated by John and Elizabeth Gould in the mid-19th century, then rendered as a lithograph by H.C. Richter.

art

See Australian Fauna in These Audubon-esque Illustrations

The 19th-century lithographs document a unique biodiversity that’s slipping away.

By Isaac Schultz
Excavations near the modern Slovakian town of Vráble, for which the site is named, offered archaeologists new insights into the counterclockwise rotation of ancient construction.

archaeology

The Mystery of Neolithic Slovakia's Rotating Villages

It’s hard to think straight when your brain is asymmetric.

By Isaac Schultz
After the destruction caused by Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, five new lifeguard stations were created, striking colorful, geometric figures on the waterfront. Another wave of these buildings appeared in 2015.

architecture

See Miami's Waterfront Through Its Midcentury Modern Lifeguard Stations

Pack your sunscreen, George Jetson.

By Isaac Schultz
A springy bamboo pole helps a villager lighten his load.

farms

How Bamboo Sticks Help Vietnamese Villagers Shoulder Mighty Loads

It's a matter of simple physics.

By Isaac Schultz
The rocky escarpments of Karoo, South Africa. Roughly 183 million years ago, this area was part of the supercontinent Gondwana.

dinosaurs

When South Africa Was Home to the 'Firewalkers' of Karoo

The reptilian critters may not have survived, but they made sure to sign off feet first.

By Isaac Schultz
As the mirabilite accumulates, it forms crystallized terraces on the lakefront.

nature

Utah's Great Salt Lake Could Hold Clues to Life on Mars

The mineral mirabilite is the key.

By Isaac Schultz
The recently dated Pitsenbarger Farm in Franklin, West Virginia, is on the state's list of endangered properties.

forests

Why Trees Are the Most Reliable Historians of Early America

Dendrochronology doesn't just work on forests. It works on buildings too.

By Isaac Schultz
Japan's charismatic raccoon dogs are back in business. Only wild boars are appearing in greater numbers.

radioactive

9 Years Later, Furry Friends—and Foes—Are Returning to Fukushima

Few of them seem to miss the missing humans.

By Isaac Schultz
Shell game: Neanderthals likely found these cutting tools beneath the waves.

caves

Some Neanderthals Wintered in Italy, Diving for Clams

In the absence of stone tools, bivalves would have to do.

By Isaac Schultz
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.

By Isaac Schultz
The 14-page manifesto went missing for 50 years in the middle of the 20th century, before being found in a Swiss bank vault.

manuscripts

Sold: Pierre de Coubertin’s Blueprint for the Olympics

The 14-page speech is now the world’s most expensive piece of sports memorabilia.

By Isaac Schultz
"Hey! Buttercup and Susie here. We're hungry."

science

An Australian Researcher Is Linking Cow Moos and Moods

Their individual voices help them as a herd.

By Isaac Schultz
The Japanese presence near Houston was commemorated in postcards.

immigration

How a Japanese Family Jumpstarted Rice Farming, Deep in the Heart of Texas

It was eventually stifled by nativism and border anxiety.

By Isaac Schultz
Border Cave, between South Africa and Swaziland.

caves

Found: The Charred Remains of a 170,000-Year-Old Meal in a South African Cave

It doesn't look like much, but it's a key step in the development of human diets.

By Isaac Schultz
Teenage T. rex would still have been plenty fearsome.

dinosaurs

How a 70-Year-Old Dino-Size Mystery May Have Finally Been Solved

Was it a teenage T. rex or another species entirely?

By Isaac Schultz
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.

By Isaac Schultz
How a Cartographer Drew a Massive, Freehand Map of North America

maps

How a Cartographer Drew a Massive, Freehand Map of North America

Just ink and colored pencil, it took Anton Thomas almost five years.

By Isaac Schultz
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