The airline apologized to Pavel Talankin, the co-director and subject of the Academy Award-winning film, after his trophy went missing following a flight from New York City to Frankfurt.

A new documentary follows photographers and scientists deep into Florida’s most remote swamps in search of answers to one of botany’s most enduring questions: what pollinates the elusive ghost orchid. Long considered one of North America’s rarest and least understood flowers, the species has resisted decades of study, with its reproduction largely undocumented in the wild. [Read More]

The TSA forced Pavel Talankin, the helmer and subject of the film, to check his little gold man, but it never arrived.