April 03, 2026
Around 980 Erik the Red was banished from Iceland for manslaughter. He moved to an unsettled island he named Greenland as a way to persuade others to move there. The name might have been more than just PR—evidence suggests Greenland was enjoying a warm spell about 1,000 years ago and about 280 farms could be found on the island.
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While Vikings don’t exactly have a reputation for being cuddly, their travel companions do. Hoping to shed some light on the early history of cats, in 2016 researchers reported the results of a study in which they sequenced the DNA of 209 felines, the remains of which had been found at various
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