The animal kingdom can be even stranger than fiction. Case in point: a larva that looks more like it was made-for-TV than ...

Many plants also grow fine if lights are kept on continually, and when I’m germinating seeds under lights, I usually keep ...

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...

Eastern skunk cabbage may not look—or smell—like a traditional flower, but its arrival heralds longer, warmer days ahead.

High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...

In our area, Curve-billed Thrashers often nest in seemingly impenetrable branches of cholla. They often position their nests ...