At daybreak on a tropical river, a shadow ripples beneath mangrove roots, and a flash of spined silhouette breaks the water’s skin. The sailfin dragon – an agamid lizard born of islands and floodplains – moves like a rumor, half fish, half lightning. For years, these reptiles were a footnote beside flashier jungle icons, glimpsed ...
At first glance, the Adirondacks can feel like an empty hush of spruce and rock, but that quiet is a misdirection. Beneath the canopy and under the waterline, the park thrums with lives that rarely make the postcards. Scientists are piecing together this hidden world with tools that read footprints in mud, genes in water, ...
Louisiana’s swamps don’t whisper; they thrum. The trouble is, most of the action happens when we’re not looking and in places we can’t easily reach. For decades, these forests of cypress and tupelo were painted as gloomy, fading backwaters, a green blur glimpsed through car windows on the causeway. But new tools are catching what ...
