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Lina Zeldovich

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2018

I grew up in a family of Russian scientists listening to bedtime stories about black holes, volcanoes and intrepid explorers. Since then, I have survived Siberian winter, Jordanian summer and Columbia J-School. I edited features at the Nautilus magazine, won three awards for stories about poo, and have written for Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Reader’s Digest, Smithsonian, Sierra Club, Alaska Airlines, Korean Air, Hemispheres, Audubon, and Mosaic Science, among others. Along the way, I’ve munched on Mexican crickets, cooked a zebu stew in Madagascar, cheered with a drink made from a venomous snake in Peru—but I always lived to write the story. I am working on a book titled “The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth” for Chicago University Press, I am a culture shock junkie, and I camp out in New York so I can fly nonstop to almost anywhere.
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Though they're protected inside the park, wolves can be killed when they cross its borders.

national parks

Wolves Have a Bad Reputation. One Yellowstone Naturalist Is Trying to Fix It.

Wildlife guide Audra Conklin Taylor shows the beauty, value, and character of the park’s packs.

By Lina Zeldovich
Do humans have comb jellies to thank for our own through-gut and anus genes?

genetics

The World’s Oldest Anus Has an Unexplained Glow in Florida

Scientists are studying its bowel movements, its dazzling sparkle, and its relation to us.

By Lina Zeldovich
When polar bears like this mom and cub wander into Churchill, a small town in a remote northern corner of Canada, they might just end up in "polar bear jail."

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Inside Canada's Polar Bear Jail

The holding facility helps bears and people safely coexist in the remote northern town.

By Lina Zeldovich
Tarpon can weigh 250 pounds and leap 10 feet in the air while trying to throw off the hook.

sports

The Lasting Allure—and Bruising Challenge—of Courting Florida's Silver King

Tarpon, a powerful game fish, helped make the state a tourism hub more than a century ago.

By Lina Zeldovich
Dr. Philippe Max Rouja, Custodian of Historic Wrecks from the Government of Bermuda, clearing the non-historic layers of sand during the rescue archaeology investigation of the bow of the shipwrecked Mary Celestia, South Shore Bermuda.

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How a Long-Lost Perfume Got a Second Life After 150 Years Underwater

A team of divers and archaeologists discovered the 19th-century fragrance in a shipwreck off the coast of Bermuda.

By Lina Zeldovich
Castillo de San Marcos from above.

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The Mystery of Florida's Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort

The secret is inside the walls themselves.

By Lina Zeldovich
A bison rests on the pasture.

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How North American Bison Ended Up in the Swiss Alps

The mammals in Geneva’s outskirts are now iconic in the country.

By Lina Zeldovich

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