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The world's largest sea turtle (at up to 7feet long and 2,000 pounds) is also the deepest diving. Adults migrate thousands of miles between feeding, mating and nesting areas, and have been observed as far north as Alaska and as far south as the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The endangered Western Pacific leatherback can swim more than 6,000 miles, from tropical nesting beaches near Indonesia to jellyfish feeding grounds off the California and Oregon coasts.

From sandhill cranes to wildebeests: 9 of the greatest animal migrations

May 9, 2019 at 7:41 p.m.

In March, the great rattling cries of migrating sandhill cranes once again fill the skies above Chicago, signaling spring as surely as the snowdrops. The northbound cranes are a distinctive...

WGN anchor told a Muslim blogger that she didn’t ‘sound like an American.’ Her response went viral.

December 14, 2018 at 9:54 p.m.

She’s a hashtag; she’s a meme. Chicago fashion blogger Hoda Katebi’s response to a WGN-TV news anchor who told her that she doesn’t “sound like an American” when she criticizes...

Chicago anchor told a Muslim blogger that she didn’t ‘sound like an American.’ Her response went viral.

May 23, 2019 at 7:05 a.m.

She’s a hashtag; she’s a meme. Chicago fashion blogger Hoda Katebi’s response to a WGN-TV news anchor who told her that she doesn’t “sound like an American” when she criticizes...

Talking about ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ author Madeleine L’Engle — with her beloved granddaughters

May 9, 2019 at 6:47 p.m.

Yes, she was very much Meg Murry, the painfully awkward heroine of her most famous novel. But she was also a popular teenager, a skilled actress, an acclaimed writer —...

Blind Spot: ‘Citizen Kane’

December 17, 2018 at 4:28 p.m.

Editor’s note: We asked Tribune writers to reflect on a piece of the larger cultural puzzle (a popular TV show, a movie, a book, etc.) they were missing — until...

Marie Williams, 45, says that she got some pushback when she decided to go gray. But now she gets compliments. "Instead of covering up (my natural color) I'm authentically me," she says in "Silver Hair: A Handbook."

Gray hair is hot, even for 20-somethings, says ‘Curly Girl’ guru

December 14, 2018 at 7:33 p.m.

Lorraine Massey knows what you’re hiding. The veteran hairstylist estimates that 80 percent of women in their 40s have a significant amount of gray hair. She knows what you’re spending:...

Nikki Grimes’ ‘Between the Lines’ is worth the wait — plus more kids’ books reviewed

May 9, 2019 at 6:46 p.m.

“Between the Lines” by Nikki Grimes, Paulsen, 224 pages, $17.99, ages 12 and up Sixteen years after Nikki Grimes published “Bronx Masquerade,” her award-winning novel about teens discovering poetry, she’s...

Anthony Clark, an English teacher at Oak Park and River Forest High School and a candidate for U.S. Congress, criticized the way the Salvation Army handled the upcoming closure of Anne's House, a residential program for sexually exploited girls and young women.

Home for sexually exploited girls closing, leaving residents in shock: ‘I’m losing the people I love’

December 15, 2018 at 2:00 a.m.

When she arrived at Anne’s House, Mary was determined to keep her guard up. Sexually molested by multiple people by age 10, homeless by age 12, out on the streets...

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a look at the future of pill-induced abortion

August 19, 2019 at 3:49 a.m.

A teenager whose mother had trouble getting her to an abortion clinic during normal business hours. A busy professional who couldn’t leave work until 4 p.m. A mother with young...

Letting kids light matches and 9 other seemingly scary things that German parents do

December 15, 2018 at 12:01 a.m.

When Sara Zaske’s 7-year-old daughter came home from school asking for matches, Zaske’s response was just what you would expect from an American parent: “Why?” But Zaske wasn’t living in...

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