Articles by Sarah Laskow

After years of trying, one man thinks he will finally find a bird long thought to be extinct.

It was unusual for cats to tread on drying clay.

Western flying squirrels turn out to be totally different from their northern or southern cousins.

Their impact on ecosystems comes on fast and can be permanent.

In which woman's past as a nurse comes back to haunt her.

She spent 11 months trekking to Siberia to find a cure for leprosy, but her love life overshadowed everything.

Someone may have been in distress—but how long ago?

It took an anonymous complaint, Google Maps, and a box of 300 keys.

After the fall of communism, the Russian government needed to get rid of a lot of Soviet cash.

Cuban boas coordinate their strikes from cave ceilings.

No one knows how long it's been since anyone looked inside.

Pay no attention to the man behind the Iron Curtain.

A rare artifact from a pivotal moment in American history.

It is very small.

An island cave held artifacts from 50,000 years ago.

A beekeeper also removed 60 pounds of honey.

They smelled.

As belts tighten, rich collections of plant and animal specimens face relegation, dissolution, or worse.

One Victorian woman traveled the British Empire.

It seems one man has a surprisingly intense hatred of them.

“Are you as lonesome for me as I am for you?"

It’s probably a whale?

The United Kingdom built hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes—and promptly forgot about them.

One was also missing its heart.