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A few weeks ago, I was driving my truck along a country road about 70 miles east of Houston. A large flock of American robins flushed into the air as I drove past a hedgerow of yaupons. Glancing in my ...

While often misunderstood, bats exhibit remarkable adaptability, with some species capable of walking on the ground. This behavior, seen in common vampire bats and New Zealand lesser short-tailed bats ...

Foraging, the act of gathering wild food from nature, has been part of human survival for centuries. In the Nordic region, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland—it has transformed from a ...

Modern survival gear can make any emergency easier to navigate, but what happens when you get caught in a perilous situation without it? Just because primitive survival skills are ancient, doesn’t ...