Much like many figures in Greek mythology, Atalanta has two different origin stories. In the first, the mortal heroine is the ...

Have you ever glanced at your cat and wondered what’s really going on in that mysterious mind? The secret might just be ...

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If you feel your family has visited all the “usual” tourist destinations in Alabama, why not get quirky this summer?

After my dad died and my family decided to sell the farm, I resolved to return for one last deer hunt with my dad's Mauser.

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Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s squishiest creatures—including one jelly that might be the oldest ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Among the items found were a hunting projectile dart system, a straight-flying boomerang, a spear-thrower and a folded pronghorn hide — which were approximately 6,000 years old. “We just sat there and ...