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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.
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Tomohiro Ohsumi / Getty The Snow Monkeys of Nagano
Images of Japanese macaques relaxing and staying warm in the waters of a mountain hot spring
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Mario Tama / Getty Dust Lakes Keep Popping Up Across the West
The demise of salt lakes threatens humans and wildlife alike.
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Marco Longari / AFP / Getty Madagascar’s Fishers Are Stuck on Land
As a result of stormier seas caused by climate change, lifelong fishers have more than a month’s less ocean time on average than they did 40 years ago.
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Getty; The Atlantic Can We Talk About How Weird Baby Mammals Are?
Kangaroos with giant arms. Bats with clown feet. Sometimes, young animals’ proportions are shockingly different from their parents’.
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Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’
Five hundred million years before the dawn of dinosaurs, strange animals ruled a frozen planet.
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Smith Collection / Gado / Getty; The Atlantic What Squirrels Taught Me About Life After Divorce
Only 25 percent of gray squirrels survive their first year. Success rates for second marriages are almost equally dire.
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Rop van Mierlo Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?
As an environmental journalist and a parent, I worry that the animals in my son’s bedtime stories will disappear before he learns they’re real.
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The Atlantic; Jesse Delia / American Museum of … How Glass Frogs Weave the World’s Best Invisibility Cloak
The amphibians pull off a death-defying magic trick to stay hidden while they sleep.
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M. Scott Brauer A National Tantrum at a National Park
“You’re in such a gorgeous place. Why are you complaining about stupid stuff?”
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Roman Dial An Unmistakable Stain in America’s Most Pristine Rivers
Climate change is rusting Alaska’s waterways.
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INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP / Getty Mumbai Has ‘Flamingo Fever’
Every winter, thousands of flamingos descend on the city’s sewage-filled creeks.
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Martin Parr / Magnum TikTok Told Me to Adopt a Pigeon
#PigeonTok is rebranding the unloved birds as pets, not pests.
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Getty / Ted Mead Surprise! Snakes Have Clitorises
A new discovery could rewrite the story of reptilian sex.
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Kendrick Brinson / NYT / Redux ‘Biological Strip Malls’ Have Taken Over the Planet
Human activity is making ecosystems around the world look the same.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The ‘Mother of the Year’ Who Starved for 53 Months
In 2014, an octopus made headlines for starving herself while protecting her eggs. Why does she remind me of my mom?
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Getty Fur Seals Made a Tremendous Comeback. That Might Be a Problem.
The once-endangered species is now wreaking havoc on coastal vegetation, putting Antarctica at risk.
