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Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Photos From the 2024 Westminster Dog Show
Images of the dogs and their handlers taking part in the annual competition
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. The Great Honeybee Fallacy
For years, people have understood them to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite evidence to the contrary. Why?
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Illustration by Lucy Murray Willis The Mysteries of Plant ‘Intelligence’
Scientists are debating whether concepts such as memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom.
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Lukasz Nowak1 / Getty Chile’s Amazing National Parks
Images of several of Chile’s national parks, encompassing a wide variety of environments
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Juan Carlos Vindas / Getty For Earth Day, a Photo Appreciation of Birds
A handful of images of the tens of billions of individual animals divided among some 10,000 species, inhabiting nearly every environment on Earth
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Nichole Sobecki for The Atlantic ‘This Will Finish Us’
How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland
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Illustration by Nicolás Ortega. Sources: Christophe Lehenaff / … What’s So Bad About Asking Where Humans Came From?
Human origin stories have often been used for nefarious purposes. That doesn’t mean they are worthless.
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Mark Schiefelbein / AP Photos: Spring in Bloom
Images from the past few weeks of people enjoying flowering trees and fields—signs of warmer days to come
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Tajborg / Getty Superb Owl Sunday VIII
A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating the magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America, and are depicted here in photos from recent years.
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Michael Probst / AP Autumn Colors and Autumn Chill
One last look at the colorful beauty of this autumn, seen in cities and countryside vistas across the Northern Hemisphere
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Aaron P / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images / … Fall Is in the Air: Images of the Season
A collection of images of autumn—the best season
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© Jack Zhi / Bird Photographer of the … Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2023
Some of the winning and honored entries in this year’s bird-photography competition
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© Max Waugh / Wildlife Photographer of the … Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023: Highly Commended
A preview of some of this year’s highly commended wildlife images
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John Moore / Getty Brown Bears Fishing at Alaska’s Brooks Falls
Recent images from Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, where brown bears are feasting on salmon once again
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Matthew Williams-Ellis / Getty Photos: London’s Urban Foxes
Recent images of foxes playing, scavenging, sleeping, and scampering around London
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Glenn Nelson / 2023 Audubon Photography Awards Selections From the Audubon Photography Awards Top 100
A collection of some of this year’s honored images of North American birds and birdlife
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Photos From the 2023 Westminster Dog Show
Images of the dogs and their handlers during the annual competition
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Paul Souders / Getty World Penguin Day 2023
Images of these unique creatures from across the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere
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Galen Rowell / Getty International Polar Bear Day 2023
A few images of these magnificent white bears in their natural habitat
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Stan Tekiela / Getty Superb Owl Sunday VII
A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating such magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America and are depicted here in photos from recent years.
