The female beaver laying on a table in the exam room was nearly comatose, her whiskered face and nimble paws twitching with seizures. Bethany Groves, the attending wildlife veterinarian, had seen ...

Doggerland is not well known outside the field of archaeology. And historically, when archaeologists have discussed it, they considered it a land bridge connecting two more interesting places, used by ...

Uncovering that history required hands-on research. In 2003, after surveying the entire estuary, Greene pulled on her gumboots and set out with pin flags and a laser theodolite to take geolocations of ...

Because Artemia are extremophiles, the expensive job of isolating a useful strain of zooplankton is no longer required; in harsh salt lake ecosystems, Artemia are the sole survivors. In addition, ...

Watch a recording of the web event from January 14, 2021 for a discussion about Gilman’s experiences on St. Matthew Island. St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska. Marooned ...

We humans define ourselves by our extraordinary mental powers—feats of memory among them. The Latin name we gave our species, Homo sapiens, translates as “wise man.”And yet, in our hyperdistracted ...

This image of a Coast Salish weaver and a wool dog was captured by Canadian artist Paul Kane. Kane traveled from Ontario to British Columbia and Washington State in the 1840s, where he sketched and ...

In India, Sacred Groves Are Helping Resurrect a Near-Extinct Forest Ecosystem Botanists and community stewards from Auroville, Tamil Nadu, are using scattered patches of native forest as a blueprint ...

I’m not surprised that people have turned to the intertidal for solace during times of crisis. Shellfishing elicits some of the most primal positive emotions of our species: the dopamine rush of ...

Share. Article body copy. The Cook Islands’ main harbor is a small indentation in the island of Rarotonga, which is the most developed of the nation’s 15 islands, yet still the kind of place where you ...

From the waterfront in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, the Skutik River appears narrow and calm. Without too much effort, it seems, one could swim to the community on the other side—not that it would be ...

Here’s what we know about whale barnacles’ lifestyles: like all barnacles, they begin their lives as microscopic swimming larvae. At some point, they find a spot to settle and start building up a ...