“To sense this world of waters known to the creatures of the sea we must shed our human perceptions of length and breadth and time and place, and enter vicariously into a universe of all-pervading water.”

Hidden in the tusk of a 34-year-old mastodon was a record of time and space that helped explain his violent death.

A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie.