Elephants’ brethren—including mastodons and mammoths—once ranged across the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa. But natural…
Nature hides patterns everywhere. The key is knowing where to look.
They say not all superheroes wear capes. Well, our newest superhero does, and it’s the color of a shallow sea. That’s…
Near small fishing hamlets along the coast of northwest India, the blue-green sea is speckled with islands of…
It is with equal parts sadness and joy that I must report that the end of Fat Bear Week is upon us and the fattest…
The only good bear is a fat bear.
As the Arctic’s mantle of protective sea ice grows smaller and sadder by the year, new waters are opening up, setting…
It took a little while, but a tiny, delicate plant found in Japan 26 years ago has been formally classified as a new…
A group of industrial chemicals humans started banning decades ago could cause many of the world’s orca whale…
It had the makings of a media sensation: “Scores of dead elephants”, their brutalized corpses rotting in plain sight.…
High in the Ecuadorian Andes, a stunningly beautiful species of hummingbird—decorated with a flashy, sapphire…
It looks like nobody’s going to be shooting a Yellowstone grizzly bear for sport this year after all.
The first statewide straw ban has arrived, folks. And—you guessed it—California is where it’s at.
It’s been a long-ass week. And next week isn’t looking better. But I would urge you to take a break from our never…
By performing a DNA analysis of elephant tusks nabbed at ivory busts, scientists have successfully backtracked the…
Imagine hopping onto the New York City subway and seeing it packed with Christmas Island geckos or Burmese roofed…
The folks over at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina, are pros at hurricane preparedness. They have to be.…
Today, we mourn.
The Dutch nonprofit Ocean Cleanup deployed a 2,000-foot-long, $20 million unmanned boom designed to gather some of the…
Anyone who’s seen the funky movie Rio knows of the Spix’s macaw, the beautiful and goofy blue bird thought to be among…