Reptile eggs are an interesting area of study, but what makes the distinction between snakes and lizards regarding their eggs ...
It is easy to assume that an egg found outdoors belongs to a bird. Most people do. Eggs feel familiar, almost ordinary, until ...
Snakes begin laying eggs, marking a critical and potentially dangerous stage in reproduction. This video focuses on the precise moments when egg-laying places intense strain on the animal’s body.
A harmless snake emerging this spring is earning a zombie reputation across America, using dramatic death acting, strange displays, and clever survival tricks that have prompted official warnings and ...
Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.
Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.
Geckos are primarily solitary creatures, but they sometimes will risk their own lives to protect one of their own.
The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...
For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...
From chasing geckos as a young boy in Kandy to studying crocodiles in Australia and much more, behavioural ecologist and ...
There’s nothing like that first spring salad you’ve been babying for weeks. And there’s nothing like walking out one damp ...

The Purged

Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded ...