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The magenta-colored blooms are rare but easy to spot.

A relic of North America’s shallow sea.

A tiny plot of land in eastern India safeguards 1,420 kinds of rare indigenous rice.

Answering the call of the sea.

Tiny gastropods, huge undertaking.

Natural history collections are topping their specimens with replicas.

For free: Four more of these derelict, decommissioned structures, courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.

This mosaic is trash.

You seal it up, but you have to test it first.

John Beasley Greene photographed early European archaeology in Egypt—but he paid little attention to those who lived there.

Bottoms up!

As the region changes apace, so does an ancient style of painting.

Reindeer herders and archaeologists must adapt to the new normal.

And how scientists tried to free this formic Donner Party.

Israel's only female prime minister favored a potent roast that carries her name.

The pollen-dusted beetle pushes back the earliest evidence of insect-flower pollination by 50 million years.

Cellars chipped out of volcanic ash are the best place to age the famed Saint-Nectaire.

A Danish structure is the latest to evade erosion by migrating inland.