While orbiting some 250 miles above Madagascar this week, International Space Station astronaut Ricky Arnold captured a grim picture of the island’s decimated land.
Madagascar’s forests have been nearly logged to death, with nearly 90 percent o…
Category: Deforestation
An extinct gibbon was found buried in an ancient tomb. Did humans kill them off?
Inside a desk drawer at a Chinese museum, a British paleontologist came across the face and jaw bones of a long-dead gibbon in 2009.
Five years earlier, scientists had discovered the bones inside an elaborate 2,200-year-old tomb belonging to a woman …