As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.” ...

Before frogs were cute, Beelzebufo ampinga lurked in Madagascar’s shadows with a skull built for bone-crunching — and possibly dinosaur-snacking.

This ‘American Masters’ presentation profiles the graphic novelist, who took on the intertwined history of his family and the ...

Disaster is My Muse,” airing April 15 on PBS, these memoirist works redefined the form and function of comics, every bit as ...

Topekan Ruth Maus's recently released first novel is a coming-of-age story about a young girl growing up in Topeka in the ...

During Rip’s long hibernation, his mouth had “grown together,” and that “if necessary, the mouth will be opened by an ...

Seasoned hiker Valerie Gillis vanishes shortly before reaching the end of the Appalachian trail. A Maine game warden works to find Valerie, as does a septuagenarian armchair detective in a ...

World Frog Day is more than just a date on the calendar – it’s a global wake-up call. For 265 million years, frogs have hopped through Earth’s ever-changing landscapes. They outlived dinosaurs, ...

The London Zoo recently established a breeding colony to save the frog from extinction ... “We plan to establish a stud book, like the ones used to maintain the pedigrees of racehorses.” ...

But he questioned why “Maus” was an appropriate choice because it includes profanity and a drawing of the author’s mother naked. (Like the other Jews in the book, the author’s mother is ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...