Our author finds Jeffrey Masson's “divertingly amateurish” style likely to broaden the audience for the animal-rights movement in a way that Peter Singer and Matthew Scully never could
The once-endangered species made the fastest recovery ever recorded for a mammal—but first, conservationists had to kill some pigs and relocate some eagles.
Since the 1800s, paleoartists have tried to imagine what prehistoric creatures looked like—with wildly different results.
The biggest reason to eat chicken instead of beef has nothing to do with saturated fat.
The way in which headless flatworms recover their sight provides important clues about the evolution of animal eyes.
C. S. .JENNISON, who lives with her husband and three daughters in Shelburne, Vermont, writes light verse and prose with equal facility for the ATLANTIC and other magazines.
Even if plastic pollution stopped tomorrow, turtles would be dealing with the repercussions for centuries—at least.
In the past couple of days, festivals were held in two villages separated by language, culture, religion, and great distance, but both centered on the use of fire as a method of purification and blessing.