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Levi Stallings

Levi Stallings is a journalist, videographer and drone pilot based in the Southwest. He's previously reported for Voice of America, as well as Arizona news sources like The Meteor and The Lumberjack. Twitter: @levi_stallings

The Andromeda galaxy and an anatomy engraving (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck

Levi Stallings
Sperm whale and sound-waves, illustration. (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Cetacean conversation: AI could let us talk to whales. Experts question if that’s a good idea

Levi Stallings
This albino sloth was named Goldie by the Sloth Conservation Foundation (Dr. Rebecca Cliffe/The Sloth Conservation Foundation)

Our thirst for pineapple may be causing mutations in Costa Rica’s sloths

Levi Stallings
The US-Mexico border wall is pictured in Sasabe, Arizona, on December 8, 2023. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

The desert “erases people:” Volunteers try to count migrant deaths, but the true number is unknown

Levi Stallings