Articles by Sarah Laskow

Paul Graviano has been making trees tiny for almost half a century, and does not plan to stop.

Rare statues and thousands of coins.

Very few tornados rotate clockwise.

The sad saga of shad, Revolutionary America’s favorite fish.

An oil tanker washed up on shore.

Itinerant artists made almost 5,000 views of 2,400 different places.

It was a good run.

No one knows how it got there.

Johnny Morris is going to keep digging until he finds out.

A depression in the backyard could be an abandoned mine shaft hundreds of feet deep.

A black star turns into a starscape.

The job was meant to be capturing official handshakes, but it turned into documenting history.

Most diamonds are colorless.

Rhode Island researchers may have finally pinpointed the ship's resting place.

During the 17th century "Kipper und Wipper" crisis, German states made bad coins and tried to pawn them off on neighboring states.

The patient never knows what odors come from inside.

Cute?

It wasn't the modest house standing on his estate, as previously thought.

Owning a Semper Augustus tulip was the ultimate flex for a 17th-century Dutch citizen.

It's all about the sideburns.

It didn't have a byline.

Some plants need help from animals to outrun climate change.

It's full of hidden wonders.

The prank's full extent—11 fake fish, 3 fake snails, 2 fake birds, 1 fake mollusk, 2 fake plants, and 9 fake rats—is only now clear.