Madison Dapcevich
Madison Dapcevich joined the Snopes newsroom as a freelance contributor in August 2023. Between July 2020 and July 2022, she was a full-time writer for Snopes. Before debunking digital rumors, Dapcevich spent several years working on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., reporting on agricultural and environmental issues throughout the Rocky Mountains, and covering breaking science news in the tech sector of San Francisco. Dapcevich's reporting has been featured in several publications, including those published during her staff positions at EcoWatch and IFLScience. She holds a master's degree in environmental science and natural resource journalism from the University of Montana, as well as a graduate certificate in natural resource conflict resolution. Dapcevich attended Cal Poly Humboldt and received undergraduate degrees in journalism and political science. When not plucking away on a computer keyboard, Dapcevich serves as a communications lead aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus assisting in deep-sea exploration and research. In her free time, she can be found whitewater kayaking and can traversing through the Montana backcountry with her two dogs, Ruka and Cholla.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
March 26, 2024
"The constitution was basically a Reddit post," wrote one social media user commenting on the yo ...
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March 22, 2024 (Updated: March 28, 2024)
The prickly, yellow flowers are among the first to bloom in the U.S.
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March 21, 2024
The clip provided "evidence that we have been lied to all along and that dinosaurs exist," claim ...
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March 20, 2024
A video on social media claimed to show the astronaut floating in zero gravity while wearing the ...
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March 19, 2024
Some people claim the cells are important for a child-bearing person's health, and that abortion ...
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March 18, 2024
The island country is also said to hold the biggest water-to-land ratio in the world.
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March 16, 2024
It’s said to be the world’s most-consumed psychoactive drug.
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March 12, 2024 (Updated: March 14, 2024)
Adult owls, on the other hand, often sleep sitting upright.
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March 3, 2024
Japanese physician Fukushi Masaichi was said to have removed the decorated skin from donated bodies.
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March 2, 2024
The original “thermos for tough guys” supposedly has become the “TikTok obsession of millennials.”
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March 2, 2024
"I came in with Halley's Comet … and I expect to go out with it," the author once said.
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Feb. 28, 2024
Future parents beware.
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Feb. 28, 2024
NASA confirmed to Snopes that the image was real, but it depicted a rather mundane object.
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Feb. 27, 2024
The paw seemingly dwarfed the size of the head of the man holding it.
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Feb. 26, 2024
"When I finally catch him in focus...," read a text overlay.
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Feb. 23, 2024 (Updated: Feb. 26, 2024)
Bison are known to be extremely cold-tolerant.
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Feb. 22, 2024
The discovery was announced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on July 22, 2011.
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Feb. 21, 2024
Ina was said to have been held in captivity for decades.
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Feb. 19, 2024
With propellant, the external tank weighed more than 1.6 million pounds.
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Feb. 18, 2024
The water is in the form of vapor distributed around a black hole said to be 20 billion times mo ...
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