A Day in Patagonia

Collecting remains of prehistoric animals in southernmost South America

Ambergris is perfume lab

Floating Gold

The Romance of Ambergris

Recent Stories

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in Wallacea.