A man was returning from a hike in southern Arizona when he saw an odd long-snouted animal on the hood of his car, deputies said. It ripped off his windshield wiper, then lunged at him, the Cochise ...

Richard Conniff, a Smithsonian contributor since 1982, is the author of seven books about human and animal behavior. In a forbidding Wyoming desert, scientists and fortune hunters search for the ...

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Traveling through the seemingly endless expanse that is the South Atlantic Ocean — 1,500 miles from the nearest inhabited island and more than 1,600 miles from the nearest continental land, South ...