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Reconstruction of settlement of late Jomon period, Japan, illustrationUNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1900: Prehistory, Neolithic, Japan. Reconstructed late Jomon period settlement. Drawing. (Photo By DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Neolithic Revolution

Neolithic Age The Neolithic Age is sometimes called the New Stone Age. Neolithic humans used stone tools like their earlier Stone Age ancestors, who eked out a marginal existence in small bands of hunter-gatherers during the last Ice Age. Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe coined the term “Neolithic Revolution” in 1935 to describe the radical […]

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Viking king depicted by modern human.

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How Vikings Cats Were Different to Today’s Cats

Clothing made from cat pelts was fashionable with Viking warriors.

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26 Photos of Dogs Being Heroes in WWI

From killing rats in the trenches to locating the wounded to keeping an eye out for the enemy, dogs served loyally at the side of soldiers and medics in World War I.

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President Nixon delivering his first State of the Union speech in 1970 where he addressed concerns about the environment.

How Nixon Became the Unlikely Champion of the Endangered Species Act

Richard Nixon derided environmentalists in private, but became the main driver behind legislation protecting the country’s air, water and animals.

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These Humans Survived Crocodile Attacks. Here Are 6 Ways You Can, Too

Historically, crocodile attacks are 100 times deadlier than shark attacks—and far more frequent—ranging from harrowing individual confrontations to a mass attack on World War II soldiers.

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1957

Soviet Union launches a dog into space

Cold War
1984

Infant receives baboon heart

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1996

Dolly the sheep becomes first successfully cloned mammal

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1956

First gorilla born in captivity

1950s
1866

ASPCA is founded

19th Century
1873

Joseph Glidden applies for a patent on his barbed wire design

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