1899 One of the first women's basketball teams.Wikimedia Commons 1905 Native American women on a Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana circa 1905.Denver Public Library 1889 Susan La Flesche, the first Native American physician, graduated medical school as the valedictorian in 1889.Wikimedia Commons 1907 Annette Kellerman posing in the swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency Wikimedia Commons 1900's Eskimo women in Alaska Library of Congress 1934 Margaret Bourke-White climbs on the Chrysler Building to take a photographPinterest 1913 Inez Millholland Boissevain prepares to lead the suffrage parade while wearing a crown in Washington D.

The discovery shows that humans' remarkable ability to adapt is the real reason major advances happened during the Stone Age. Mohammad ShoaeeThe first substantial cave record from coastal Kenya shows gradual changes in innovations beginning 67,000 years ago. An international, interdisciplinary group of researchers have uncovered human innovations from at least 67,000 years ago. The artifacts were found in a cave located in a coastal area of Africa that, up until now, there was very little information on.

Source: Houston Museum Of Natural Science There is some confusion about where the Atlas Moth got its moniker. Some say it is named for the Titan of Greek mythology, while others say the moth was named for what some see as a map-like pattern on its wings. In Hong Kong it is commonly called the “snake’s head moth” because the extensions at the top of its wings look like serpents’ heads.

These iconoclasts shunned the modern world and ventured into the most remote reaches of planet Earth to live in total isolation — sometimes for decades on end.In 1854, Henry David Thoreau published what many consider to be his magnum opus, Walden, a collection of 18 essays written in isolation at a small shack on the edge of Walden Pond. Although it received little attention in Thoreau’s time, Walden has been lauded since the early 20th century as an influential piece of writing on labor, individualism, and nature.

This tick species was initially indigenous to Asia, but made its way to Australia and New Zealand before arriving in the U.S. It now has populations in at least 10 states.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/James GathanyThe Asian longhorned tick was first noticed in the U.S. in 2017. It has since established populations in at least 10 states. A fifth cow in North Carolina died by exsanguination this week, and the perpetrator was smaller than a penny.