The gorilla moves with quiet majesty through Uganda’s highland forests, while across the country, communities are stepping up ...

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Millions of faithful descend on Mexico City each year, at first by bike or by foot and then often crawling on their knees in ...

Using drones and cameras attached to the orcas, scientists have finally been able to learn something about the interaction ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

A new generation in this storied Chinese megacity is eschewing the fast-paced lifestyles of their parents and embracing fun, ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf ...

Argentina’s capital city has more bookstores per capita than almost anywhere else in the world. From a jazz-filled speakeasy ...