“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

The colorful blooms of azaleas light up public spaces and private gardens.

It isn’t the world’s tiniest lizard, but the discovery of this odd-looking gecko by a University of Texas at Arlington ...