The 30-200 feral hogs rotting in a field in Oklahoma

A prehistoric lake bed, really chill iguanas, and breakup beer. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. January 27, 2020 Prairie Hog Companion Maggot-filled feral hogs rotting in a field in Oklahoma are helping ecologists understand the impacts of mass animal die-offs—and the grave implications of a future without vultures to clean up dead stuff. Read More → Prehistoric Lake Bed The Estosha Pan in Northern Namibia is no stranger to extremes. The white, salty landscape is often dry, cracked, and dusty. But after enough rain, it sometimes transforms into a shimmery world. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Last Chance: Rome Behind Locked Doors The Eternal City is full of secrets. This March, we'll show you where they are. Go beyond the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain to see another side of the mysterious metropolis. Discover restricted catacombs and what's behind the walls of a private palazzo. Learn more → Amsterdam, Netherlands ‘Zero Level’ The infrastructure of Amsterdam all depends on a stone at the center of Dam Square. Read more → San Francisco, California Enemies of the Heir, Beware This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world. Read more → It’s Raining Iguanas Unseasonably low temperatures in South Florida recently gave residents an unusual sight: rigid reptiles falling out of trees. They weren’t dead, just really cold iguanas dreaming of spring. Read more → From the archives Breakup Beer When divorce was off the table, 18th- and 19th-century English wives were “sold” for a variety of payments and beer–by the pint, quart, and gallon–was the most common currency. Read more → Recordkeeping Trees Despite our best intentions, humans can be awful recordkeepers, and that’s why we turn to trees to learn more about early American history. But dendrochronology doesn’t just work on forests. It works on buildings too. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222