Meet a Bee With a Very Big Brain
This is Panurgus banksianus, the large shaggy bee. It lives alone, burrowed into sandy grasslands across Europe. It prefers to feed on yellow-flowered members of...
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When These Sea Anemones Eat, It Goes Straight to Their Arms
People have a lot of strategies for dealing with the effects of large meals — constitutionals, antacids, workouts, naps. Starlet sea anemones have found a...
Extinction Is Not Inevitable. These Species Were Saved.
The Przewalski’s horse is exceptional. It is the only horse species that has never been domesticated, and it also managed to very narrowly escape a...
In This Woodpecker Kingdom, War Is a Spectator Sport
Acorn woodpeckers are renowned food hoarders. Every fall they stash as many as thousands of acorns in holes drilled into dead tree stumps in preparation...
When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble
In 1970, Jim Estes made his first trek up to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. He was greeted by an ocean filled with furry faces. Everywhere the...
You Can’t Escape Lice, Even 6,500 Feet Below the Ocean
Darling, it’s better under the sea, unless you’re an insect. You might find some bugs skimming the surface of a pond or even creating their...
Old Male Elephants: Don’t Count Them Out
For years, scientists assumed that when it came to elephants on the African savanna, matriarchs were the only leaders. Old males, on the other hand,...
How a Praying Mantis Says ‘Boo!’
From a distance, the dead leaf praying mantis resembles its namesake: brown, crispy and still. Inch a little closer and it looks the same. But...
Why Some Tropical Fish Are Gettin’ Squiggly With It
When American painter Bob Ross said, “There are no mistakes, only happy accidents,” he was ostensibly referring to paint on a canvas. But Mr. Ross’s...
Making Sense of ‘One of the Most Baffling Animals That Ever Lived’
Nearly 250 million years ago, a very odd reptile patrolled the shorelines and coves of the Triassic Alps. Called Tanystropheus, it had a toothy head...