Fascinating characters and an emotional story lift a magical realism adventure that’s set in the American South.

Planned mining at the the Okefenokee Swamp, which straddles the Georgia-Florida border, would damage the swamp’s water ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

From the tiny, silly-looking sun bear to the iconic polar bear, these animals are specially adapted to different environments ...

Joining southeastern Virginia with northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is a stretch of forested wetland that, in hindsight, doesn’t really live up to the “dismal” part of its ...

It was the dense, tangled hostility of the swamp and its enormous size that enabled hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of escaped slaves to live here in freedom. We don’t know much about them ...

In the Ozarks, Missouri, there are easy-to-navigate natural history museums, nature trails, animal sightseeing, and an ...

From the adorable but deadly pine marten to the massive sperm whale, get to know some of the amazing animals that call ...

Highly adaptable, Asian small-clawed otters can thrive in a variety of freshwater aquatic habitats, from swamps and mangrove ...

Fossil vertebrae excavated during a mine dig in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever existed.

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...