The Strange Tale of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program
In the 1960s, over seventy scientists and graduate students traveled to U.S. outlying islands as part of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program.
Do Wildlife Corridors Work?
In Sumatra, a network of corridors linking endangered populations of orangutans, tigers, and other wildlife is under development.
How We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs
How do we know that a meteor caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Dinosaur Brains And Other Unusual Fossil Finds
How can anything besides bones remain from so many millions of years ago?
Why Do Pandas Have Thumbs?
Some panda species have strange thumb-like appendages, but their thumbs evolved for strikingly different reasons.
Are GM Crops Worth It?
GM crops have been controversial from the beginning. Proponents argue they are better commercially, but that analysis is coming into question.
Mustangs: Celebrated Western Icon or Ecological Disaster?
Mustangs, as the wild horses of the American West are known, represent something different for everyone.
The Glowing Mystery of Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence, an animal's ability to create and use light, exists exclusively in the lower branches of the tree of life.
Plants Know When They Are Being Eaten. (And They Fight Back.)
Plants have long employed a variety of defensive strategies against herbivores, but the scope and sophistication of these defenses is still being understood.
The Incredible Moving Forest
For as long as plants have existed, there have been moving forests, migrating across the earth’s surface in response to changes in the climate.