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Sabrina Imbler

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2019

Hi! I'm a staff writer for Atlas Obscura. Reach me at sabrina.imbler@atlasobscura.com.

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A Nassau grouper off the coast of Cuba.

islands

In Little Cayman, Things Are Looking Up for the Enormous, Friendly Nassau Grouper

Signs of recovery for the so-called "puppies of the sea."

By Sabrina Imbler
Kummakivi (Finnish for "strange rock") was deposited by a glacier.

science

Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks

“They’re nature’s hilarious accidents."

By Sabrina Imbler
The record-breaking Rafflesia, taken on December 31.

forests

An Elusive 'Corpse Lily' Bloomed Larger Than Ever Before in Indonesia

The massive red flower also smelled really, really bad.

By Sabrina Imbler
The spring pygmy sunfish, blue and ready to breed.

cars

A Tiny Alabama Fish, Twice Declared Extinct, Lives On Near a Car Factory

The spring pygmy sunfish and a Mazda Toyota plant are going to be neighbors.

By Sabrina Imbler
A Triarthus, preserved with the arm of the shrimp-like predator Anomalocaris.

geology

In Upstate New York, Ancient Arthropods Can Get Turned Into (Fool's) Gold

Pyritized trilobites aren't just flashy—they preserve incredible detail.

By Sabrina Imbler
A group of fish loitering around the discharge of the Sydney Desalination Plant.

salt

Fish Flock to the Super-Salty Wastewater of the Sydney Desalination Plant

Sydney's technological solution for drought is having unexpected effects on marine life.

By Sabrina Imbler
Cut off by a road, this bog has flooded unnaturally.

forests

Bogs Lose Their Carbon-Chomping Powers When Roads Cut Through Them

In Canada, roads disrupt wetland water flow and multiply methane emissions, a new study finds.

By Sabrina Imbler
You, too, could prune a shrub here.

ruins

9 Scottish Castles and One Neolithic Village Are Now Hiring

The jobs are simple, but the views are spectacular.

By Sabrina Imbler
“Desire is nothing new,” says Michael Bronski, a historian at Harvard University.

museums

Excavating a Queer History of Colonial Williamsburg

Historians are digging into the lives of 18th-century colonists who may have lived outside the norm.

By Sabrina Imbler
A sea lily, spotted off the Northwest Guam Seamount.

fossils

A Sea Lily Fossil in Utah Just Solved an Evolutionary Mystery

“This tears off one branch in the tree of life and rearranges it another way.”

By Sabrina Imbler
A mated pair of seahorses researchers have named Dusk and Dawn.

hotels

A Chain of Seahorse Hotels Is Coming Soon to Sydney Harbour

"If you build it, they will come."

By Sabrina Imbler
To unroll a millennia-old scroll, be careful how you breathe.

buddhism

How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2,000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll

“It was the most fragile object we have ever encountered.”

By Sabrina Imbler
Checking In on the Algae of a Brooklyn Reservoir With a Microbiologist

science

Checking In on the Algae of a Brooklyn Reservoir With a Microbiologist

Sally Warring knows a lot about what we can't see.

By Sabrina Imbler
An adult Kemp's ridley sea turtle heading to sea.

turtles

The World's Tiniest Sea Turtles Keep Getting Stranded on Cape Cod

Floating devices called "drifters" are helping oceanographers understand why.

By Sabrina Imbler
Okay, this guy's a snake.

snakes

How a Fossilized Snake With Legs Fits Into the Lineage of Lizards

“Snakes are just fancy lizards,” says one evolutionary biologist.

By Sabrina Imbler
Welcome to Verdun, where toads live in bomb craters.

forests

In France, a Bloody WWI Battlefield Has Become a Wildlife Refuge

Toads, orchids, bats, and millions of unexploded shells.

By Sabrina Imbler
Stranger Horse's pipe-tomahawk.

weapons

An Engraved Tomahawk Offers a New, Native History of a Battle

The weapon may have belonged to a Lakotan warrior named Stranger Horse.

By Sabrina Imbler
Found: The Oldest-Known Photograph of Enslaved African Americans With Cotton

slavery

Found: The Oldest-Known Photograph of Enslaved African Americans With Cotton

The daguerreotype records their faces, but not their names.

By Sabrina Imbler
The grave of the remarkable Nancy Adams today.

cemeteries

The Grave of Nancy Adams, Who Thrice Escaped Slavery, Is Now a Symbol of Freedom

It has been designated as part of the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

By Sabrina Imbler
Believe it or not, this picture was taken on land.

nature

A Wave of Colorful ‘Coral’ Fungi Is Washing Over Wales

The magenta-colored blooms are rare but easy to spot.

By Sabrina Imbler
Snailer and malacologist Norine Yeung in a field of trampled uluhe.

islands

In the Field With the Intrepid, Dedicated Snailers of Hawai‘i

Tiny gastropods, huge undertaking.

By Sabrina Imbler
Deep in a forest in western Poland, is an abandoned Soviet bunker with an unusual ant situation.

bunkers

The Saga of the Cannibal Ants in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker

And how scientists tried to free this formic Donner Party.

By Sabrina Imbler
The 99-million-year-old beetle, bathed in pollen.

mines

Found: Pollen on a 99-Million-Year-Old Beetle, in Amber

The pollen-dusted beetle pushes back the earliest evidence of insect-flower pollination by 50 million years.

By Sabrina Imbler
Duluwat Island, now officially back in the hands of the Wiyot Tribe.

islands

How the Wiyot Tribe Won Back a Sacred California Island

The tribe finally completed a ceremony interrupted by a massacre in 1860.

By Sabrina Imbler
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