philippines
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Stunning Discovery Shows Early Humans Were Hunting Rhinos In The Philippines Over 700,000 Years Ago
Our species, Homo sapiens, weren’t the first humans to leave Africa – not by a long shot. The remarkable discovery of a 709,000-year-old butchered rhino fossil in the Philippines shows that so-called archaic humans were romping around the islands of southeast Asia a full 400,000 years before our species even existed.
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Why Did Montana Experience A Powerful Earthquake This Week?
Earlier this week, planet Earth rumbled in a place where it usually doesn’t rumble: Montana. But it also rumbled in the Philippines. Come to think of it, it rumbled in Vanuatu and Japan too. The Earth rumbles a lot.
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The Eerie Ruins Of 11 Abandoned Hotels
Tourism is a funny thing. Sometimes hot spots are hot, prompting opportunistic developers to build. And sometimes they’re not. (The outbreak of a civil war is a great way to shut down a tourist destination.) Photographer Dietmar Eckell has spent the past several years visiting the hotels and resorts that got left behind.
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Monster Machines: US Sends Aid Armada To Typhoon-Ravaged Philippines
Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful storm on record, bludgeoned the Philippines last week with 380km/h gusting winds and 15m tall waves. By current estimates, the storm’s fury has impacted 6.9 million people in 41 provinces, taken countless lives, and razed more that 150,000 homes, entire towns simply washed away by the tides.