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When were boats invented?

The oldest physical boat is a canoe from roughly 10,000 years ago, but evidence suggests humans have been using watercraft for at least 50,000 years.
Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...
Storm Chandra forced one family to make a rather unusual commute to work on Tuesday morning. After the fields near his family farm flooded, George Darts decided to paddle across them in a canoe.