From purple martins to barn swallows, find out how to spot and identify 8 members of the swallow bird family during summer.

This quietly satirical speculative novel tells a story of metamorphosis, but feels insulated from real ecological crisis ...

Of all the marvels of the natural world, few are as astonishing as the common swift (Apus apus). These small birds spend ...

Flying critters don’t always have the best options when it comes to finding a home, but staff and students at Allegheny College are giving them a safe place to set up camp. After receiving a grant ...

“Dude wanted me to pretend to slowly step on snails, slowly lowering my foot down onto the floor (specifically in flip flops) ...

Some of the Amazon rainforest’s remotest reaches lie not in Brazil, but in Ecuador. A weeklong river cruise reveals the ...

When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A farmer turned beekeeper, he recalls their buzzing was easy to spot when he ...

Columnist Jim Abrams write about the nutritional benefits of wild game, its low carbon footprint and the physical rewards of ...

"You can fight without ever winning, but you can never win without a fight," writes Max Noble. "Sir Lewis is going down fighting. But that is no guarantee that he will ever win a championship again." ...

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

There are over 3,500 types of snakes on the planet, and most of them know how to climb trees. Although their characteristics ...

A flying relative of dinosaurs, Bakiribu waridza (“comb mouth” in the Kariri language) filtered crustaceans and other small organisms from rivers and lakes, where it was likely swallowed by a predator ...