Explore northern Thai culture by taking a tasting tour around the region’s de facto capital, where classic dishes are influenced by a distinct local history.

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ...

It’s not brutish human nature that prompts nasty posts and tweets, the author says. But how we evolved does play a role.

Being able to reproduce both sexually and asexually gives the dragons an evolutionary edge, Garcia says. If no mate is handy, a female can bear sons parthenogenetically—and when they’re older, they ...

Get the story behind these social penguins who breed during the harshest time of year in the most inhospitable region on Earth.