Billions of birds appear and disappear with the seasons every year. Early naturalists offered explanations for the ...

As she prepares to retire from the University of Cape Town, the palaeobiologist reflects on apartheid-era barriers, ...

There are an absurd number of molehills in my neighborhood.Small mounds of dirt are appearing all over the ground. At first, ...

A nationwide search for giant crayfish uncovered a record-breaking Tennessee specimen and a surprising mystery about how big ...

For more than two decades, National Geographic photographer Steve Winter and environmental journalist Sharon Guynup have ...

In order to find each other in the rainforest, what scientists think might be going on is that they're tuning in to the ...

The two male dire wolves, which were born Oct. 1, 2024 from genetically engineered eggs implanted in surrogate dog mothers are now two years old.

For fourteen years the British Farming Awards has been shining a light on the best in British farming. During this annual event Britain's farming industry comes together to celebrate the achievements ...

Amid wars, AI doom and a super El Niño, good news can seem in short supply. But it is there if you go looking. In Nature’s ...

The violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) is a rare and exotic-looking bee that can grow up to 3cm. It has a striking metallic purple sheen. It nests in rotting wood, emerging in late summer.

FOR parents and their children, weekends would typically wind down with them around the table for Sunday dinners together. Recently, selected families assembled for a different kind of communal ...

Breaking down this year’s Nobel Prize–winning science, from switching brain cells on and off with light to catching cosmic neutrinos in Antarctic ice to building mirror-image molecules. Plus, a ...