Gary Shteyngart on the rodent winning hearts. Plus: putting a skeptic in charge of science; Michael Crichton’s lessons in ...

which include the jaguar, the anaconda, and the alligator-like caiman. Of course, humans often hunt the capybara for its meat and skin. The Catholic Church in Venezuela bent the rules for the ...

Standout images from the Open contest include a scene from New Mexico that could be an alien planet, a moonrise burning across the horizon in Scotland and a curious capybara - the world's largest ...