Books

We learn how to listen closely to these critters—they're saying a lot more than you'd think.

Polar explorer Edmund Stump has made 13 field trips to research and photograph the southern continent.

Every five to seven years, Chile's Atacama Desert shows its true colors.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, these birds lead humans to hidden bee colonies.

The world’s largest living structure renews itself in nights of moonlit passion.

From birds to butterflies, there are many examples of animals that combine male and female characteristics.

More than 45,000 years ago, these porky foragers inspired the earliest known non-abstract art.

These scrappy and squat high-elevation trees can live for thousands of years without seeming to age.

They will not be shushed.

Author Christopher Cokinos can’t get enough of the moon.

As their name suggests, these small birds provide critical cleaning services to oxen, impala and other animals of the savanna—with a side hustle as rhino guards.

From a 1915 suffragist road trip to the “First Lady of Drag Racing.”

Beware the foreshadow of a darkened sky.

More than 20 species of these winged mammals construct tiny leaf homes with climate control and built-in security alarms.

This fall, we're offering a stunning, all-new guide to the world's living wonders.

An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.