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A winter monarch cluster roosting in a eucalyptus tree at Pismo Beach.
Pismo Beach, California

Monarch Butterfly Grove

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.
A green darner dragonfly on the move.
science

Tiny Dragonflies Travel Hundreds of Miles, to Mate and Then Die

One generation commutes one way, the next comes back.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 19, 2018
Rebecca Winters' grave.
gravestones

A Mormon Pioneer's Grave, Marked Only With a Wagon Wheel Rim

Rebecca Winters's grave is one of the few that were marked at all.
Sarah Laskow October 24, 2018
Straw-colored fruit bat migration in Kasanka National Park.
Serenje, Zambia

Kasanka Bat Migration

Zambia's smallest national park is home to one of the world's largest annual mammal migrations.
Lift-off from the pond.
Bosque, New Mexico

Bernardo Waterfowl Area

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.
Birds flock around the bridge on a summer evening.
roads

Swarms of Summer Birds Are Lowering the Speed Limit on a North Carolina Bridge

When purple martins moved into the William B. Umstead bridge, the laws changed.
Cara Giaimo July 13, 2018
A Canada warbler. Davies and his group saw about 14,000 of these, roughly 2 percent of their overall tally.
animals

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
A bison rests on the pasture.
farms

How North American Bison Ended Up in the Swiss Alps

The mammals in Geneva’s outskirts are now iconic in the country.
Lina Zeldovich May 15, 2018
Gastro Obscura

Morkovcha

The Soviet-Korean carrot salad is a sweet-and-sour testament to a diaspora's resilience.
Two short-finned pilot whales move through the ocean.
animals

From Turtles to Whales, Marine Animals Have the Same Moves

With the help of remote tracking devices, scientists are deducing the choreography of the sea.
Cara Giaimo February 26, 2018
A close up of the fossilized teeth.
science

Found: A 177,000-Year-Old Jawbone, the Oldest Evidence of Humans Outside Africa

The story of human migration is undergoing a dramatic revision.
Sarah Laskow January 25, 2018
A snowy owl snacking.
animals

The Snowy Owls Are Back in Town

Them wild-eyed birds that had been away.
Cara Giaimo December 7, 2017
Beautiful Peranakan tile from the turn of the century is clean and still gorgeous
Singapore

Bukit Brown Cemetery

One of the largest Chinese cemeteries outside of China spent years overgrown and forgotten.
A solo painted lady.
butterflies

The Charming Culprits Behind Denver's Mysterious Radar Blob

It turned out to be a whole lot of painted ladies.
Cara Giaimo October 5, 2017
A female olive baboon carrying a juvenile. In baboon society, all members help make decisions, even decidedly non-alpha duos like this.
maps

Mapping the Hidden Movements of Baboon Troops

What researchers have learned from tracking 57,000 individual "baboon decisions."
Cara Giaimo September 25, 2017
One of the burials found at the pyramid.
pyramids

Found: The Remains of Chinese Laborers Interred on a Peruvian Pyramid

In the 19th century, 100,000 indentured laborers came to Peru from China.
Sarah Laskow August 25, 2017
television

Norway's Migrating Reindeer Are Too Slow for Slow TV

Reality television stars can be so fickle.
Cara Giaimo May 2, 2017
The Madonna in Bethesda
Bethesda, Maryland

Madonna of the Trail

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.