As British colonists seized Indigenous land in 19th-century New Zealand, the Māori fought to protect their ancestral territory and political authority.
Odysseus faced the cyclops, his men turned into pigs, and he sailed between a six-headed monster and a whirlpool. Each of these, it turns out, have potential real-life explanations.
Decades after nearly going extinct, the world’s only existing population of Asiatic lions is overrunning a small reserve in western India. Now what?