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Underwater, the mantas circled Evie, ready for a game. A work of fiction.

Tree-ring records suggest that drought played a role in Roman Britain’s decline

The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts

Stephen S. Hall on writing his new book Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

The Sombrero Galaxy returns in a revamped Hubble image

Intimations of mortality are not ours alone

At most, its oceans may contain biomass equivalent to a small dog

New tech might help humans find others in need faster

For Schaus’ swallowtail butterflies, hurricanes mean clear skies and bright futures

Dinosaur illustrator Mick Ellison on the evolution of using science and art to visualize the long-extinct animals of the deep past

Steeper, faster, and higher peaks make more species

A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life