A hunter-gatherer ate an entire rattlesnake and we have the coprolite to prove it

Erotic cake dancing, spineless cacti, and 33 deserted places. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. April 29, 2019 The Drovers Inn Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts. Read More → Rattlesnake Meal About 1,500 years ago, a hunter-gatherer in present-day Texas ate an entire venomous snake. This isn’t presumptive. It comes straight from the source: the individual’s fossilized poop, replete with one of the snake’s preserved, poison-pumping fangs. Read more → MÖRBYLÅNGA N, SWEDEN Sandby Borg This Iron Age ringfort on the southeast coast of the Swedish island Öland was wiped out some 1,500 years ago by a mysterious massacre. Read more → Snakes With Horns When the horned desert viper buries most of its body in the desert sand across North Africa and portions of the Middle East, two sharp-looking “horns” and piercing eyes are all that you can see. Read more → Spineless Cacti In the early 20th century, Luther Burbank was a botanical superstar. Tourists, foreign envoys, and celebrities flocked to his home in Santa Rosa, California, clamoring to see the marvels the “plant wizard” developed in his garden. His proudest achievement? Breeding cacti to have no spines. Read more → 22 Deserted Places From Australia to Argentina, rusting ghost towns, forgotten theme parks, and overgrown houses are frozen in time, abandoned by the humans who built them. Read more → Erotic Cake Dancing A scandalous 1895 image of 16-year-old Susie Johnson bursting through the crust of a giant pie sparked a tale of money and violence that would bring down one of the most famous architects of the Gilded Age and turn women dancing out of cakes into a popular erotic trope. Read more → Food & Drink Turkish Cave Cheese Divle Obruk is a rare, cave-aged cheese that’s one of the last vestiges of a dying cheese-making tradition. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222