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

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For Sale: Bonnie and Clyde’s Sawed-Off Shotgun

Plus Bonnie’s poetry, wanted posters, and a bloodied bandage.

September 18, 2019

A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland

A nightmare at 6,000 feet.

September 18, 2019

Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males

One theory is that reckless young bison and mammoths got into more trouble.

September 13, 2019

Is the End Coming for a Problematic California Grade School Tradition?

The mission model project has long glossed over the brutal treatment of Native Americans.

September 12, 2019

endangered animals

How a Tiny Plant Made a Big Comeback in West Virginia

The running buffalo clover may soon be removed from the endangered species list.

September 11, 2019

Scottish Authorities Are Trying to Reunite a 'Witch' With Her Skull

Lilias Adie's head has been missing since 1938.

September 9, 2019

The Ocean's Eerie Twilight Zone Is in Murky Legal Water

Scientists are trying to keep one of the world’s last great wildernesses intact.

September 5, 2019

destination southern africa

Found: Fossilized Tracks of Baby Sea Turtles in South Africa

Prehistoric squee!

September 4, 2019

In the Pyrenees Mountains, It’s Bears vs. Sheep vs. Humans

A bear named Claverina has stoked an age-old debate about where predators belong.

September 3, 2019

imaginary world

Zoology’s Favorite Hoax Was an Island Rat That Hopped on Its Nose

Harald Strümpke didn’t just create a lost archipelago, he created a sensation.

September 3, 2019

Saving the World’s Last 14 Loa Water Frogs

The endangered amphibians were found camped out in a lonely brown puddle in Chile.

August 29, 2019

California's Mexican-American History Is Disappearing Beneath White Paint

It’s surprisingly hard to protect beloved public art.

August 28, 2019

Climbers in Utah Scaled a 400-Foot Rock to Measure How It Moves

Scientists say Castleton Tower is always vibrating, but doesn’t seem in danger of falling down.

August 27, 2019

chill like a ...

Between Plagues, Medieval Peasants Enjoyed Bawdiness and Brawling

To chill like a peasant, attend a farcical play and wrestle with your friends.

August 23, 2019

chill like a ...

Ancient Mesoamericans Calmed Down and Hooked Up in Sweaty Steam Baths

Temazcales helped indigenous people let off steam, until colonialism came along.

August 21, 2019

The Not-So-Chill History of Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt

The aloha shirt has many possible inventors and a long, fraught cultural history.

August 20, 2019

No, the Banana Apocalypse Is Not Around the Corner

But Colombia’s outbreak of lethal banana fungus is still bad news.

August 16, 2019

Biologists Relocated 30,000 Animals to Make Room for a Natural Gas Plant

It took seven years to evacuate all the goannas, echidnas, and venomous snakes.

August 15, 2019

For Sale: The Dalai Lama’s 1966 Land Rover

The vintage 4x4 traversed rural roads in Dharamsala for 10 years, with His Holiness in tow.

August 14, 2019

North Carolina’s Abandoned Gold Mines Don’t Have Gold, But Do Have Bats

A deadly disease could devastate these thriving colonies of winged critters.

August 14, 2019

One Family’s Story of Survival Under the Khmer Rouge, No Longer Buried

Photos testify to the Rama’s journey from Battambang to Shreveport.

In a Special Room in an Ohio Library, Toni Morrison’s Legacy Lives On

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist never lost touch with her hometown.

Why Does the U.S. Army Own So Many Fossils?

Turns out massive flood control projects are a great way to find dinosaurs.

Researchers Concocted an Ancient Egyptian Perfume Perhaps Worn by Cleopatra

One archaeologist describes the spicy, musky scent as "the Chanel No. 5 of ancient Egypt."