For people from eastern states like New York or Boston, California is a dream. People feel like they could just take over and declare themselves King and no one would try to stop them because it…

Field surveys are so 20th century. Satellites are the wave of the future when studying remote penguin populations. Like with space travel, we may someday wonder why we wouldn't send robots or…

A new study finds that migratory birds that breed in Arctic Alaska are initiating nests earlier in the spring, and that snow melt occurring earlier in the season is a big reason for it.   The…

Around 165 million years ago, a bizarre parasite lived in the freshwater lakes of present-day Inner Mongolia - fly larva with a thorax formed entirely like a sucking plate. With this odd thorax, the…

Spiders are traditionally viewed as predators of insects but zoologists have published a study that finds spiders all over the world also prey on fish.  That spiders are not exclusively…

Honeycomb of European honey bees (Apis mellifera) with eggs and larvae. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s time once again for everyone’s favorite game show: Environmental Whack-a-Mole! What Black and…

Throughout Earth's geological history, there have been numerous warming and cooling phases. The last Ice Age only ended 11-12,000 years ago The Antarctic Peninsula, the northern most region of…

White sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are among the largest, most widespread apex predators in the ocean so there have been concerns about their vulnerability. The most comprehensive study undertaken…

Three years ago, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers took a close look at a connectivity phenomenon - how fire ants work together to build waterproof rafts to stay alive. After examining the…

People may associate the concept of the chastity belt with medieval Europe but other parts of the animal kingdom used them long before that. Male dwarf spiders, for instance, have evolved a…