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
“It’s not just another American convention hotel. . . . It’s a great American castle. . . . All your worldly needs are provided for . . . when you go to the barber or the hairdresser or the gift shops. . . .This isn’t no-man’s-land. Or primitive wilderness. This is civilization.”
The immutable laws of design set limits on all organisms.
From queen bees to elephant matriarchs, many animal mothers are assisted by others in rearing offspring.
The giant clam yielded its 14-pound pearl only after slaying a native diver trapped when its great jaws snapped shut.
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) |