After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people.
What to Do With a Bug Named Hitler? Anophthalmus hitleri is a small, amber-colored beetle native to a few damp caves in Slovenia. It has one glaring problem.
A Tokyo Taxi Driver Is Charged With Running Down a Pigeon The arrest of the 50-year-old driver highlighted the strict law in Japan against harming the birds, even if they take over balconies or get in the way of traffic.
Chimps Can Still Remember Faces After a Quarter Century Long-term memories may have been vital to our own evolution, suggests a new study of chimpanzees and bonobos.
A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals Anton Thomas, a New Zealander in Melbourne, Australia, has given three years of his life to a hand-drawn map of our planet and its animal inhabitants.