Animal world
Giant pigeons unexpectedly reappear after 140 years of 'disappearance'.
An expedition to Papua New Guinea has captured the first photos and videos of the black-necked pigeon in 140 years.
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Animal world
Bird of prey 'missing' for half a century discovered
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced on September 13 that it had just discovered a species of bird of prey that was
Environment
The landslide disaster in Papua New Guinea killed more than 300 people
On May 26, the Papua New Guinea government officially confirmed that more than 300 people died and 4,000 people were affected by a landslide in a village in this country.
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Papua New Guineans have 5% of their 'superhuman' genes from other humans
The ratio of human genes is extremely different
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Strange tribes in the world pique your curiosity
They lurk in the deepest, darkest corners of the Earth - or in the vast, remote plains of Africa.
Oceanography
Triton Bay - Where people live with giant sharks
In the remote area of Triton Bay (West Papua, Indonesia), a special bond between humans and sharks has been built.
Space science
The first interstellar object to explode on Earth
A fireball that ignited over Papua New Guinea in 2014 was a fast-flying object from another star system, according to a recent announcement by the US Space Command (USSC…
New technology
Chinese research ship swept the American face
Two Chinese research vessels entered Papua New Guinea's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in northern Manus Island.
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Little is known about the country hosting the 26th APEC
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated as PNG) covers an area of more than 400 thousand km2 located in the Pacific Ocean, including two main islands formerly known as Papua and…
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Ritual of drawing bones on the body of the Chimbu tribe, Papua New Guinea
According to the RC, many nations in the world still maintain rituals using their own bodies to create works of art.
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The shocking discovery of the tribe has the practice of drinking sperm
Sambians have incredible weird habits: Drinking sperm to be recognized
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The group carries the DNA of the extinct human species we never knew
Scientists think somewhere around 60,000 to 100,000 years ago, the first human ancestors migrated from Africa, meeting the first large group of gibbons in Eurasia.
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The tribe sleeps with the ancestral dried, smoked mummy
Dani tribe people on the Indonesian plateau have the tradition of embalming the ancestors and heroes by smoking continuously until the bones are dried out.
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Discovered the wreckage of the plane falling Indonesia, all passengers died
All 54 passengers and crew members on the Trigana Air (Indonesia) ATR 42 aircraft were killed, the wreck was discovered on the morning of August 17.
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Scary of smoked mummies on the cliff
For centuries, Anga tribes in Papua New Guinea's Morobe plateau have made an extremely creepy mummification technique by smoking.