For centuries, the Bermuda petrel survived only as a memory. Sailors and islanders knew the bird had once filled the skies around Bermuda, but by the modern era it was considered gone forever. Then, in the middle of the 20th century, a handful of unexpected discoveries changed its story. A small colony was found hiding…

Far beyond the green edges of Australia’s coastal cities, a strange landscape appears in the middle of the outback. Low hills of pale earth rise from the red desert, scattered across the horizon like unfinished sculptures. They are not ancient ruins or natural formations, but traces of a town built around one of Australia’s most…