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Scientists and volunteers spent more than 100 hours scouring the Australian outback for the rare daisy.

"Cræft," Alexander Langlands' excellent book, is part history, part travelog, and part hay-making manual.

The latest twist in a food-based war between Campania and Puglia.

The complex relationship between Mormons and caffeinated soda.

Dr. Louis Auzoux's greatest creation was made of bone and scrap paper.

Humans consistently associate roundness with sweetness.

No, they won't make good pets.

He has some trouble with the ketchup.

Party animals pay the price.

Early Egyptians and Greeks force-fed geese, ducks, and hyenas.

Also, what is grog?

Gerald Winters's bookstore in Bangor, Maine, specializes in rare editions and type-written drafts.

Two researchers are hoping to diversify our chief communicative ecosystem.

By wielding their built-in defenses, some prehistoric creatures thwacked enemies hard enough to crack bone.

Beyond the "Southern Cross," there are dozens of symbols of the Confederacy.

The controversy that has long roiled the coin world.

From war to exploration to pleasure cruising, pets have often accompanied us on the oceans.

A rare example of biofluorescence that isn't in the ocean.