These Fish Can Adjust to Heatwaves—And Pass the Resilience on to Their OffspringNews 10.15.2025Though scientists aren’t quite sure how they do it, three-spined sticklebacks show an unexpected fortitude in the face of repeated heatwaves.
As the World Becomes Drab, Butterflies FollowNews 10.09.2025With monocultures increasingly replacing diverse forests in the tropics, brilliance has become a burden.
Lens of Time: Witch Hazels Take FlightVideo 10.08.2025Investigating the mechanics of seed dispersal in an unusual shrub in eastern North America has revealed that some plants have powers of propulsion equal to the planet’s fastest animals.
Ibis on the MoveNews 09.12.2025As tropical birds flee their overheating homes, biologists worry for the imperiled species they might displace.
Go North, Young TurtleArticle 09.02.2025As eastern Pacific green sea turtles were being slaughtered in much of their range, an intrepid group of turtles pushed north into uncharted waters.
Tricks of the TrunkSpotlight 08.28.2025With their dexterous trunks, bush elephants satisfy their enormous appetites and transform the landscape.
How Some Trees Evolved to Birth Live YoungNews 01.22.2025For mangroves, dropping babies in the dirt can be a big advantage.
Lens of Time: Tiny FliersVideo 12.27.2024As ubiquitous as flight may be in the natural world, it turns out not all flying creatures approach the feat in quite the same way.
Splitting HaresArticle 09.09.2024In Sweden, researchers working to save a rare variety of mountain hare think conservation should focus on genes, not just species.
The Curious Life of a Singing FishSpotlight 04.23.2024Plainfin midshipmen migrate from the deep sea to the intertidal zone to spawn, and that’s when things really get loud.
One in a MillionSpotlight 01.23.2024Beetles are the most diverse group of animals on the planet—and that diversity expresses itself in extraordinary and sometimes preposterous ways.
Reef RefugiaArticle 11.02.2023In Belize, scientists are studying a thriving coral reef and helping to spread its resilience into other reefs around the Caribbean.
Parental PeriscopeSpotlight 11.02.2023In Brazil, intact populations of capybaras and jaguars lead to surprising interactions—and remarkable adaptations.
Night SwimmingSpotlight 10.12.2023Specialized underwater photographers take to the ocean at night to reveal worlds beyond our own, right here on Earth.
Prince of DarknessSpotlight 08.24.2022Helmet jellyfish have taken over a Norwegian fjord, demonstrating the species’ tenacity and offering clues about environmental factors that can upend an ecosystem.
Tiny DancersSpotlight 08.18.2022Even without true wings, a subspecies of Siberian flying squirrel endemic to Japan executes astonishing aerial acrobatics.
Shot in the DarkSpotlight 07.14.2022Africa’s black leopards are shrouded in mystery, but groundbreaking photography is bringing them to light.
Downward SpiralArticle 06.04.2022The nautilus’s lineage made it through all five of Earth’s previous mass extinctions. But can it survive the Anthropocene?
Love TrainSpotlight 06.03.2022The Kangaroo Island echidna may seem bizarre, but the spiky mammal’s quirks have helped it survive cataclysmic change.
Beautiful UglySpotlight 04.22.2022While the Asian sheepshead wrasse’s allure may be debatable, the fish’s color-changing, sex-changing abilities are hard to disregard.
