Last week felt like I should have been working in the garden, flying a kite, or wade fishing for crappie. Other than the two weeks of “seasonal” cold weather we experienced, it has been one of the ...

Same-sex sexual behaviour has been recorded in around 1,500 species, from insects and starfish to birds and mammals. Yet sex ...

When you think of birds, you might imagine wings flapping silently against a blue sky. The kākāpō, however, lacks these ...

Biologist Loren Ammerman explores Big Bend bats, from Mexican long-nosed to pallid, and shares insights and Texas ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

Kelli Carroll, a zookeeper at the Lake Superior Zoo, introduces The Lift to the zoo’s blue-death feigning beetles.

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

Nature’s most dazzling colors can be strangely rare. Walk through a park or forest and you see greens, yellows and reds that ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions are bad news for most animals, including spiders. But these creatures aren’t ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

We spend billions of pounds and decades of research trying to build machines that can clean the air, move water, […] ...