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Midland, South Dakota

Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Mountain gorillas face many risks.

A Gorilla Poop Treasure Hunt Through Central Africa's Virunga Volcanoes

How researchers collect genetic info without disturbing the majestic primates.

Jessica Leigh Hester June 6, 2018

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Auto Hawk

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

Arctic Fox staying inside a log

Smyrna, New York

Wolf Mountain Nature Center

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

Entrance to the Cave of Dogs, 2013

Cave of Dogs

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Taxidermy

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Cow along Stephen Avenue in downtown Calgary, 2007.

Calgary, Alberta

Udderly Art Pasture

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

Gålö Seal Training Station

Haninge C, Sweden

Gålö Seal Training Station

This secret facility trained seals for the Swedish navy during the Second World War.

Dinosaur tracks!

Sunland Park Dinosaur Tracks

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Standing guard.

San Antonio, Texas

Giant Hog Stand

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

Replicas of the original effigies to Bastet.

London, England

Black Cats of Carreras Cigarette Factory

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

Swan Park.

Monticello, Minnesota

Swan Park

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

A Canada warbler. Davies and his group saw about 14,000 of these, roughly 2 percent of their overall tally.

Dispatches From Inside a Record-Breaking Bird Migration

What it's like to find yourself among 721,620 warblers, all in a hurry.

Cara Giaimo May 31, 2018

London, England

Animals in War Memorial

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

Richmond, California

Nike Missile Radar Site

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Pterosaurs probably didn't have their legs out like this.

We Have Probably Been Imagining Pterosaurs All Wrong

New research suggests we've misunderstood the legs of these prehistoric flyers.

Cara Giaimo May 24, 2018

Humans only make up a sliver of the biomass.

The Incredibly Tricky Task of Measuring All Life on Earth

Humans make up just 0.01 percent of the biomass on the planet—the same as termites.

Jessica Leigh Hester May 22, 2018