For the past few years, I’ve occasionally had this feeling that someone in Hollywood must be watching over me, or at least listening in on the strange ideas that go chunking through my head. The first I knew of this
When in China, I succeeded in getting to the Dengchigou Catholic Mission, the official starting point for the giant panda’s historical journey. I spent about four hours in a car, being driven up into the mountains north of Ya’an City
Over in Galapagos, scientists have identified nine giant tortoises in captivity that appear to be descended from the long-extinct Floreana tortoise, a variety assumed to have disappeared more than 150 years ago. Charles Darwin visited Floreana in 1835 though the