Nobody loved chimpanzees more than St. James Davis and his wife LaDonna; the couple spent more than 30 years—and gained a modicum of fame—raising one as their son. Then they almost died in a brutal chimp attack.

The enigmatic life and death of Bruno Zehnder, who obsessively photographed penguins in the ice fields outside of a Russian base in Antarctica.

What it takes to recover from a near-death brawl with a bear.

A (graphically) detailed account of a bear’s attack on a father and daughter hiking in Glacier National Park.

A stylized account of the fall of ant colony.

America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.

Why Darwin’s theory of sexual selection is wrong and “gayness is a necessary side effect of getting along.”

On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.

A writer struggles to understand, among other things, why humans do more for whooping cranes than for themselves.

A writer struggles to defend his arbor vitae trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.”

Fifteen years ago, William Dranginis saw Bigfoot. He’s still trying to prove it.

The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.

The complex, highly evolved world of Moscow’s subway-riding stray dogs.

Will we deplete the worldwide Bluefin Tuna population beyond repair?

A mayday call in the critical moments after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform.

What does it take to win the World Taxidermy Championships?

A profile of the mysterious and moderately intelligent Giant Pacific Octopus.