wildlife

For thirsty sea snakes, the ocean can be a desert.

Vampire bats display adaptations to their diet

Shared child care may be the secret of human evolutionary success.

During the past 40 million years, three great lineages arose in the dog family.

March 2008

What airplane designers could learn from the shape-changing wings of birds

Good thing for us it’s small, because this predator gives no quarter to its quarry.

Toxic hairs enable some caterpillars to venture forth in conspicuous processions.

August 1992

Some trees succeed in life by offering giraffes a meal of flowers.

November 1985

A butterfly larva’s fate depends on who finds it first—its ant friends or ant foes.

October 1951

The surprising story of Old Bet, the first elephant ever to be brought to America

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