August 14th, 1906
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Fresh fossil finds in Africa shed light on the era before Earth’s largest mass extinction
An international team of paleontologists has spent more than 15 years excavating and studying fossils from Africa to expand our understanding of the Permian, a period of Earth’s history that began 299 million years ago and ended 252 million years ago with our planet’s largest and most devastating mass extinction. Led by researchers at the […]
This Day in Alaskan History-August 13th, 1915
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This Day in Alaska History-August 12th, 1916
With the passage of the Organic Act of 1916, hunting on the Kenai Peninsula was brought to a halt and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, C. F. Martin, announced in a letter published in Alaska newspapers on August 12th, 1916 that hunting would cease until August 1st, 1918. The ruling prohibited the hunting of Mountain […]