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Cisco, Texas

Old Zoo Nature Trails

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.
Camp Century trench construction in 1960. Caption reads "Metal arch forms being emplaced over undercut trench."
science

Wonder Is Everywhere: Viking Hoaxes, a Secret Nuclear Ice Base, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White November 22, 2023
Skull and linen wrapping of a mummified baboon recovered from Gabbanat el-Qurud, Egypt and connected genetically to coastal Eritrea.
mummies

Mummified Baboons in Egypt Point to a Long Lost Land

New discoveries of ancient DNA could help scientists find the land of Punt.
Sunny Fitzgerald November 21, 2023
Scientists don’t know how many silky anteaters live in Brazil’s Parnaíba Delta. Densely vegetated mangroves make it difficult to count the elusive animals.
science

Brazil's Most Adorable Anteater May Be a New Species

These isolated, pocket-sized silky anteaters live among the mangroves of Brazil’s Atlantic coast.
James Hall November 20, 2023
Electric eels, native to the Amazon region, are known for delivering powerful, painful jolts to prey, would-be predators, and the occasional human. But much less is known about their reproduction.
science

The Shocking Sex Lives of Electric Eels in Brazil

Lightning and other environmental electricity may jumpstart reproduction for the Amazon Basin fish.
James Hall November 15, 2023
animals

Podcast: A Long Walk Home

A man journeys on two mules across the U.S. to find what's missing.
The Podcast Team November 8, 2023
Farley Mount Monument
Hampshire, England

Farley Mount Monument

This towering monument is dedicated in memory of a most unusually named, yet heroic, horse.
<em>Leopardus guigna</em>, or kodkod, is the smallest wild cat in the Americas, and is often smaller than an average house cat.
animals

The Smallest Wild Cat in the Americas Is Also the Cutest Bad Omen

In rural Chile, the kodkod, or güiña, has a bad rep for stealing chickens—and as a portent of death and disaster.
Roxanne Hoorn November 1, 2023
Union, Kentucky

Diorama Pit at Big Bone Lick State Historic Site

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.
Te Matua Ngahere—"Father of the Forest"—a giant kauri tree growing in the Waipoua Forest of New Zealand, is the second-largest of its kind.
volcanoes

Wonder Is Everywhere: The World’s Oldest Trees, the Heaviest Ball of Twine, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White October 27, 2023
A parasitic fungus emerges from the body of a fly in Peru.
subterranean

5 Creepy Tales of Real-World Zombies

And 10 places to wait out a (fictional) undead apocalypse.
April White October 20, 2023
A wild vervet monkey, native to Africa, dines near the Fort Lauderdale International Airport rental car area in 2021.
mummies

Wonder Is Everywhere: An Accidental Mummy, a Murdered Tree, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White October 13, 2023
The deathwatch beetle found in the United Kingdom, <em>Xestobium rufovillosum</em>, was once considered an omen of death.
science

The Truth Behind the Deathwatch Beetle's Creepy Tap-Tap-Tapping

In the United Kingdom, the insects were once considered omens of death—they're actually much more destructive.
Roxanne Hoorn October 11, 2023
Bandicoots are just one of many mammals that fluoresce.
animals

Blacklight Studies Reveal That Most Mammals Secretly Glow

"It is, quite literally, seeing things in a whole new light.”
Sunny Fitzgerald October 10, 2023
All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura
animals

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Animal Crossing

AO Puzzles October 9, 2023
This is not exactly how most animals react to an eclipse.
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Six Stories to Illuminate the Upcoming 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse

The annular eclipse will make its way across the Western Hemisphere on October 14.
April White October 6, 2023
Dampierre-sur-Boutonne, France

Asinerie du Baudet du Poitou

A public center dedicated to showcasing and conserving the enormous shaggy Poitou donkey.
While they are technically American black bears (<em>Ursus americanus</em>), many of the bears around Mammoth Lakes have brown, blond, or even ginger fur.
animals

In Mammoth Lakes, Bears, Tourists, and Locals Learn to Coexist

Animal Planet's 'Bear Whisperer' shares how the California town copes with both dumpster-diving bears and human party animals.
Steve Searles and Chris Erskine October 4, 2023