Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to ...

On Colón Island, Panama, a new species of shrimp was discovered under dying mangrove roots. Known as Trichocallia delicatula, this “beautiful hairy ghost shrimp” is characterized by its translucent ...

The blowfly larvae bodies have evolved to closely resemble those of the termites, the researchers report February 10 in Current Biology. Inside the nest, termites recognize each other through touch, ...

It's a brisk morning in early March and you've just arrived at your favorite lake. Heater set to high, seats roasting, and ...

An objectively beautiful series filled with awe-inspiring landscapes and handsomely depicted wildlife whose existence is ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Marshall, Nicasio, Lagunitas, Woodacre, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls, ...

Area homeschool students gathered to learn about owls at the Wildcat Hills Nature Center on Thursday, Feb. 13.

Baby owls—five of them, bedraggled and bug-eyed, unused to the light. Almost immediately, one jumped onto the lip of my ...

From beetle-pinning classes to possum yoga, the Insect Asylum offers citydwellers a place to commune with nature.

Walk into the woods and you are bound to find standing dead trees, otherwise known as snags. Here's what you may not know about them.

Nestled along the banks of the Chattahoochee River, Eufaula, Alabama, is a hidden gem that’s about to become your new ...

This time of year just seems to be skunk season, and their pungent smell reminds us that love is in the air, and the skunks ...