New Jersey is home to an abundance of wondrous creatures. Some, like crows and ravens, may seem like an everyday occurrence in our lives, but it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate just how ...

Kings Canyon National Park, located in the Southern Sierra Nevada region of California, is generally visited for its massive ...

Although they prefer fresh, recently dead, carcases, they will also consume rank, well-decayed, carrion that is covered in ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1898 New York photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) embarked on a deeply personal project, creating a set of ...

More than 160 million years ago, the forests of ancient China were home to a bizarre predator: a tiny dinosaur that glided from tree to tree with leathery, bat-like wings. The newfound fossil, ...

After getting feathers from wildlife rehabbers in Maine and Minnesota, a team at the Wildlife Center of Virginia last month attached six feathers to the raven’s right wing and one to its left. The ...

At a singles cocktail party, the ending is often predictable. A female may choose a male from several because he is attractive. But why does she think he is good looking? Scientists, stumped by that ...

There are two species of horsetail/marestail, field (Equisetum arvense) and giant horsetail (E. telmateia), whose tendency to take over patches of ground with their impenetrable stems presents a real ...

That’s because the feather barbs in the eyespots are locked together with tiny hooks, much like those in flight feathers, ...