Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

The Belle Isle alligator has a new home in Westland after being seen this week. Cell phone video from a woman who was paddle-boating at Belle Isle on Sunday. The DNR checked it out, and the hunt was ...

Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” are given color-coded uniforms and wrist-bands and then segregated based on their ...

Visitors to Belle Isle may find an unlikely inhabitant in the Detroit island park after the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said a reported alligator sighting there has been deemed "credible ...

Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “ Alligator Alcatraz ” are given color-coded uniforms and wrist-bands, then segregated based on their criminal ...

Hamtramck resident Lynn Blasey couldn’t believe her eyes during a visit to Detroit’s Belle Isle on Sunday. Sunbathing on the shore was none other than an alligator. “I made a new friend while ...

The Bibb County Sheriff's Office helped relocate the reptile to a private pound far away from the fast food parking lot 13WMAZ/YouTube After a two-day stakeout at a McDonald's, an alligator was ...

DETROIT, MI – State parks and wildlife officials confirmed they are figuring out what to do about credible photographic evidence of an alligator at Belle Isle Park. Visitors to the Detroit park on ...

In July, workers installed a permanent Alligator Alcatraz sign. The facility is within the Florida Everglades, 36 miles west of the central business district of Miami PHOTO BY AL DIAZ ...

MACON, Ga. — An alligator was found on Rocky Creek Road, near the McDonald's parking lot on Sunday. For at least two days, a 12-foot alligator was spotted lounging near the restaurant’s drive-thru, ...

Forget potholes. Detroit's latest hazard has teeth. Officials at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources confirmed social media rumors that, yes, a small alligator has been spotted on Belle Isle.