Virginia's Chincoteague Island seems to glow during the magic hour—that bit of the day just before the sun begins its dramatic descent into the bay and its rays skate across the water like sequins.

The mysterious origin story of the wild ponies on Assateague Island might finally be closer to being resolved, thanks to a recent scientific discovery that all happened by chance. The island is a ...

One doesn’t have to look very hard to find the wild horses of Chincoteague. The herd of roughly 150 “saltwater ponies” actually roams the beaches and marshes of neighboring Assateague Island, just ...