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Bison help engineer the spring regrowth with their grazing patterns.
science

Understanding How Bison Might Help Shape the Future of the Badlands

New lessons from resurgent herds.
Isaac Schultz November 18, 2019
The Friends Goodwill memorial statue
Larne, Northern Ireland

The Friends' Goodwill Memorial

Honoring one of the first boats to leave Ulster destined for America.
The Swedish town of Linköping, where a Neolithic family grave is adding to the understanding of human migration.
genetics

Scientists Are Learning More About Scandinavia's Battle Axe Culture

The genetics of a Stone Age family with a metal name.
Isaac Schultz October 18, 2019
The unassuming entrance.
Mexico City, Mexico

Helu's Productos Árabes

This tiny, tucked-away eatery reflects the history of Mexico's Lebanese immigrants.
The seals at Donna Nook.
Donna Nook, England

Gray Seals of Donna Nook

The adorable animals return to this nature reserve every fall to give birth to their pups.
An Australian Research Council team surveys an archaeological site on the southern coast of the island of Seram in 2019.
exploration

How Many People Did It Take to First Occupy Australia?

Scientists are looking deeper into how the continent's first people arrived.
Jonathan Carey June 21, 2019
Zwangendaba's Grave.
Nteko, Zambia

Zwangendaba's Gravesite

A Zulu warrior is buried far from home, near the very northern border of Zambia.
Video • AO Docs

'Discovering' Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Migration

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Painted lady butterflies pause to feed on the nectar of California's superbloom near Thousand Palms.
insects

An Amazing Butterfly Irruption Is Swarming Across California

Painted ladies are taking the skies by storm.
Evan Nicole Brown March 14, 2019
Millions of monarchs descend on the El Rosario butterfly preserve each year.
science

The Tiny Sticker That Traveled More Than a Thousand Miles on the Wing of a Butterfly

Tracking these insects takes a little adhesive and a lot of luck.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 7, 2019
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