Scientists can tell whether bullfrogs are at hand by examining just a tablespoon of pondwater.
European temperature trends point to more intense heat waves.
200,000-year-old human hair turns up in fossil hyena dung.
Keiko chose the comforts of human care over freedom.
Discoveries of more complete remains of cartilagenous fishes have shed new light on the prehistory of sharks and their relatives.
New studies of the white shark (aka great white) show that its social life and hunting strategies are complex
Marine predators follow a mathematician’s advice for efficient hunting.
With suggestions that Americans turn to economic account some of the smaller species of the Atlantic Coast
The fleshy pink "fingers" on the snout of the star-nosed nole point to this animal's unique evolutionary history.
The surprising story of Old Bet, the first elephant ever to be brought to America
A butterfly larva’s fate depends on who finds it first—its ant friends or ant foes.
How They Have Augmented the Food Supply of Mankind in Early and Recent Times
The badlands of southeastern Utah, home to part of the
dinosaur-rich layer of rocks called the Morrison Formation
An Internet guide to the troublesome termite
An Internet guide to the technological wonders of the Middle Kingdom
An Internet guide to Sputnik and other early satellites
An Internet guide to how muscles work
Hear author Xiaoming Wang interviewed by Vittorio Maestro, Editor in Chief of Natural History. (MP3, 17 minutes) |