Articles by Jessica Leigh Hester

They're hard to reuse, and can be quick to burn.

Quaggas, ibises, and tapirs, oh my!

The Tay Whale brought together science, spectacle, and hucksterism in the quest to turn a buck.

In a letter to her sister, the novelist politely recounts a grisly scene.

Aerial views highlight a sliver of the huge business.

When the politician dropped it in a London theater, an usher swooped in to save it.

At the Field Museum, visitors can now get a whiff of the Cretaceous.

The rosy-hued house in Louisville, Kentucky, could be yours.

Imagine the roar.

Lots of legends seem to start underground.

In Argentina, aerial imagery helps researchers get a close look at southern right whales from a distance.

The cartographic curio was probably an educational tool.

A conservation group is hoping that as peat bogs spring back, so will carnivorous plants.

A little speckled, a little orange, a little mysterious.

It helps to be curious, low to the ground, and not afraid to look a little silly.

Bottles, cans, and more can reveal a long history of industry, recreation, and shenanigans.

Researchers squeeze into an underwater habitat off Florida to help prepare for missions to the Moon and beyond.

Sorry, everyone: Researchers found that a hybrid species is even more “vigorous” than its parents.

It involves tiny straws and a whole lot of liquid nitrogen.

The teeny menaces turned up in a core taken from the floor of the Santa Barbara Basin.

Step right up!

Long after the forest stops burning, the effects of this year's fires will linger in the soil and water.

Blighted, century-old produce goes back on display for the first time in decades.

As glaciers and ice sheets keep dwindling, scientists are proposing everything they can think of.