The well-known copperhead is often mistaken for lesser-known species of nonvenomous snakes. One common snake that is ...

S cientists have created cyborg embryos by implanting electrode arrays into the developing brains of frogs, mice, and ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife – from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct – ...

Sitting with Jack Shealy in his home studio in rural Ochopee is a bit like getting a backstage pass to the music and to his ...

As night settled across northern Vietnam, a “large” creature with spines on its belly sat near a waterfall. Its “dark green” eyes scanned the surrounding forest, but it wasn’t the only one looking ...

There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name ...

The wood frog, Lithobates sylvaticus, looks like any other frog in summer. A pleasant combination of greeny browns, but nothing you’d be writing home about. Come winter, however, they pull off ...