The image harkens back hunters using Black children as alligator bait, a practice portrayed in old illustrations and recorded in oral histories.
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Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Feb. 2026
Across Arizona’s Sky Islands, home to many black bears, valleys and hillslopes are dotted with the rusty corpses of Emory oak, alligator juniper and manzanitas.
The look—a skintight black bustier dress with a trompe l’oeil crocodile tail on the front and a bursting cloud of white tulle at the back—first appeared in January on Roseberry’s couture runway for the label.
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José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
4 Mar. 2026
In August 2024, police said human remains were found inside a large crocodile suspected of killing a tourist in Australia.
We Pekingese are reared on shark fins, curlew liver, and the breast of quail; for drink, the milk of antelopes that pasture in imperial parks.
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Andrew Norman Wilson,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
The land, which is home to herds of pronghorn antelope, mountain lions, wolves, mule deer and groves of aspen trees, was originally planned for geothermal development when Santa Clara city leaders bought it nearly 50 years ago.
In an age of sports specialization, with elite young athletes being increasingly pushed to concentrate on just one craft, Darnold said putting down the pigskin in favor of the roundball every winter played a key role in his development.
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Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
8 Feb. 2026
While Coach was so focused on football that he might as well have been made out of pigskin, Claudia leaned toward the performing arts, having played the clarinet in her high school band.
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