Building a thatched roof for my hut required more effort than anticipated, utilizing over 35 willow branches, about 200 fan ...

NEAR ISABELLA, MINN. ‑ In a breakneck, bumper-to-bumper culture, taking a convenient route can become mindless habit. Consider groceries. It's easy to forget that food doesn't come from a supermarket; ...

Firefly Gathering 2014 at Bell's Cove, a 300-acre, private lot in Barnardsville. The Gathering will be held here for the 3rd year. Photog: Oliver Fleming. Last summer, Diana Parra, a Colombia native ...

PRIMITIVE SKILLS -- The third annual Between the Rivers Gathering, an extended ancestral living skills workshop geared for families, is returning May 26-30 in Valley, Wash., north of Spokane, ...

Doug Hill would not be opposed to living completely off the grid. He could sport his homemade buckskin shorts every day, drink untreated water from streams, pluck his lunch from blueberry patches. He ...

What is the most primitive form of life on earth? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Sam ...

A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and limbs. The fossil shows that the ancestral pattern of lobed fins ...