It is with profound sadness that we mourn the death of Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE.  In the early 1960s, as a young woman, she entered the African forest to ...

At a time when most people imagined ocean science as something happening in distant tropics, the scientists and artists on board the Arcturus knew that great mysteries also lay closer to home. The ...

The Rio Grande is one of North America’s great rivers, flowing nearly 1,900 miles from southern Colorado through New Mexico and along the Texas-Mexico ...

The maneuvers and jumps associated with high classical dressage were originally designed as equine military training to develop strength, agility, balance, concentration and focus on the rider’s ...

The male peacock jumping spider must dance for his life. In order to woo a female and avoid being eaten, he performs an intricate dance using a brilliantly colored fan attached to his abdomen. If the ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Tropical rainforests regulate the global ...

In 1893, a bounty hunter named Ernest Thompson Seton journeyed to the untamed canyons of New Mexico on a mission to kill a dangerous outlaw. Feared by ranchers throughout the region, the outlaw wasn’t ...

Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology. Based ...

Deborah Cipriani of Skunk Haven, Inc. with some of her black and white charges. After watching Is That Skunk? viewers may wonder: do skunks really make good pets? In the case of wild skunks the answer ...

Eels can be found all over the globe, in fresh and salt water ecosystems alike. But today, risk of over-fishing and the presence of dams and other obstacles that prevent eels from reaching their ...