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These isolated, pocket-sized silky anteaters live among the mangroves of Brazil’s Atlantic coast.

A guide to where to go in New York City—if you want to understand a certain iconic pop star.

The correlation between temperature and flavor is obvious across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Pastry warships, frogs hopping out of pies, and other spectacles devised by Robert May.

Tales of tradition, erasure, resilience, and dancing.

No one knows how artists pulled off a trick over 100 years ago.

The now common term wasn't used to describe medieval Scandinavians until the 19th century.

The 400-year-old fabric extends the iconic pattern's history in Scotland by over a century.

This installation in the New Mexico desert is a bucket list destination for art nerds.

Scientists try to figure out why the water dramatically changed color over one weekend.

Lightning and other environmental electricity may jumpstart reproduction for the Amazon Basin fish.

Decades before the Wampanoag and Pilgrims shared a meal, the powerful Calusa and their Spanish guests celebrated their new alliance. Spoiler alert: It didn't last.

Trek through rural Vermont to find what is perhaps the cutest and most filling micro-store.

Somebody in the fifth century combined these ingredients into one recipe, and probably no one has since.

Winemaking collectives pooled their resources to build these architectural wonders.

From "unabridged" to "slanguage," Madeline Kripke's library is a logophile's heaven (or hell).

A dive to the bottom of this ancient sinkhole reveals bubbling sand, thick like Silly Putty. Is there another pond beneath it?