YouTube channel Video unveils ancient giants: massive beavers and towering penguin predecessors compared to today's tinier versions Mark Frauenfelder
Science "Cave of Bones" scientist Lee Berger talks about extinct apes that buried their dead and created art Ruben Bolling
Science Study: Small-brained hominins used fire, engraved tools and cave walls, and buried their dead Ruben Bolling
conservation Watch Walter Cronkite announce Pan Am's plans to ground safari hunters (1971) Mark Frauenfelder
books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro
babies Congrats to tortoise couple Mr. and Mrs. Pickles on the arrival of their three hatchlings, Dill, Gherkin, and Jalapeño Jennifer Sandlin