If you spot some oddly oblong eggs in your yard, they could be snake eggs. Here's what to do next to keep yourself — and the ...

Many people deem scorpions as one of the most interesting members of the class Arachnida owing to their formidable looks, pincer-like pedipalps, and segmented tails that hold their telsons or stingers ...

My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

Bee-eater birds are stunningly colorful, but their diet of bees and other insects puts them at odds with humans.

This is a story about a bird and a family. But this is no ordinary bird, and this is no ordinary family. Spix’s macaw, a vivid-blue parrot with elaborate mating rituals, was declared extinct in the ...

Not all fish play by the same reproductive rules. Evolutionary biology reveals how deception became a successful mating ...

A Nest Cam captured bald eagles Jackie and Shadow mating near Big Bear Lake. The mating ritual occurred weeks after the pair lost two eggs to invading ravens. Feathers ruffled and nature was on full ...