Long-Distance Tweets

The tiny songbird, Northern Wheatear, has the stamina to make one of the farthest recorded migrations—scaled for body size—of any bird, as much as 9,000 miles in each direction between the North American Arctic and Africa.

Lil’ Lizards

Four new species of chameleons are discovered in Madagascar. Three rank among the world's smallest amniote vertebrates (the group comprising reptiles, birds, and mammals).

Pole Watchers

Projected slowdown of ozone loss by the end of the current decade can be seen as a first sign of ozone recovery

Charitable Chimps

Chimps display altruistic behavior..

chicken and child

Reverse Transmission

People infect animals, too.

Tapejara wellnhoferi

Sailing Ancient Seas

Did Pterosaurs sail, as well as fly?

captive hermit crab

Vertebrate Bias

Even the spineless feel pain.

pig

In A Pig’s Eye

Swine see their world—if not themselves—in the mirror.

ocean

Rising Waters

Human activity is behind mounting sea levels.

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Recent Stories

Even at an early evolutionary stage, bird-like dinosaurs occupied different niches in the same ecosystem,

Dung beetles use light from the MIlky Way to find their way

Recently identified subspecies ranges farther than first imagined: across Africa.

An archaeologist ponders the fate of Hoover Dam