Anyone who has watched a cheetah run down an antelope knows that these cats are impressively fast. But it turns out that speed is not the secret to their prodigious hunting skills: a novel study of how cheetahs ... Read more
Anyone who has watched a cheetah run down an antelope knows that these cats are impressively fast. But it turns out that speed is not the secret to their prodigious hunting skills: A novel study of how cheetahs ... Read more
AL FUJAYRAH, United Arab Emirates — When the fight the audience had been waiting for arrived, a hulking black bull named Rocket, whose horns had been filed to sharp points, strutted into the dirt lot used ... Read more
The great migration began perhaps 40 years ago. From strongholds in the Rocky Mountains and Texas, young males headed east, seeking female companionship and new places to settle. The emigrants ... Read more
Nature photography — stills and live action — is a cultural staple, like Honest Abe Lincoln, celebrity self-immolation and the myth that Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays. But why? ... Read more
MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — As a gastronomic delicacy, the five-ounce hamburger that Mark Post has painstakingly created here surely will not turn any heads. But Dr. Post is hoping that it will change ... Read more
Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, Colo. — An electric whir filled the air of this high desert valley as Jeff Sloan, a cartographer for the United States Geological Survey, hurled a small ... Read more
EAST LANSING, Mich. — At first he thought it was a deer, perhaps the big-antlered buck he had seen before and hoped to bag someday. But the closer Steve Davenport got, the more unfamiliar ... Read more
LOS ANGELES — On a film set, even the bugs bite by the book. And the book is voluminous, 131 pages set of guidelines imposed by the American Humane Association on film and television ... Read more
For more than a decade, wine experts have discussed the impact of climate change on wine grapes, agriculture’s diva, a marquee crop nurtured and pampered around the world. Now scientists are ... Read more