New research reveals why young puffins are drawn to artificial lights like moths to flames and how simple fixes could save them. The Puffin Patrol: Newfoundland’s Midnight Rescue Squad Every August in Witless Bay, Canada, volunteers armed with butterfly nets and flashlights scour the coastline for stranded pufflings baby Atlantic puffins that should be at ...
Imagine a place where pythons roam the swamps, panthers slink through mangroves, and fishermen must check their catch for invisible boundaries. Welcome to Florida—a state where the laws designed to protect nature are so unusual, so imaginative, that you might wonder if they’re the product of wild storytelling rather than serious legislation. Yet, beneath the ...
The forest is silent, but the evidence is not. Hidden deep in the wilderness, a single feather, a shattered tusk, or a drop of blood can whisper the story of a crime against nature. Wildlife forensics, a field as gripping as any detective novel, is on the front lines of the battle against poachers, traffickers, ...
On a frozen Antarctic plateau where exposed skin can freeze in minutes, tiny insects cling to life in films of ice, while hundreds of meters below the ocean surface, fish glide through water so cold it should turn their blood to slush. High above the Andes, mammals breathe air so thin most of us ...
A creature straight from prehistory swarms through the underbrush in razor-sharp form and is decorated by bony crested in the forests that lie in Australia in the Australian and New Guinea. It is often referred to as the “modern-day dinosaur,” the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuaries) is more than a bird, it’s an actual relic of ...
Today’s Arctic is a land of bitterly cold winters, unceasing summer daylight, and a delicate ecology full of migrating birds. But a revolutionary finding in northern Alaska points to an avian paradise far older than we could have ever known. A wealth of 73-million-year-old fossils, including delicate bones of embryos and hatchlings, shows that birds ...
China has essentially monopolized rare earth elements (REEs), the unsung heroes of modern technology, for decades. Although these 17 metals run everything from fighter planes to cell phones, their supply chain has long been a geopolitical flashpoint. Now, a ground-breaking discovery from Australian company Lynas Rare Earths has industry leaders and scientists humming: the first ...
For over a hundred years, scientists were baffled by this mysterious creature. Yet, new research has revealed its strange anatomy and previously unknown behavior, completely changing our understanding about the early days of life on Earth. A Fossil That Defied Explanation Back in 1918, paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott unearthed a peculiar fossil in Canada’s legendary ...
