colonies

Colonies consist of hundreds of individuals linked in chains that can be up to several meters long.

Heavily taxed playing cards circulated in the American Colonies before the Revolutionary War.

Colonies of seabirds, then, are helping keep the Arctic cooler and dampening the effects of climate change “one splat at a time.”

In 1619, the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, one of the newly formed 13 American Colonies.

Colonies of bats are living in the ceiling, and windows have been hit by stray bullets.