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A Buzz-Worthy Way to Protect Elephants
Credits: Julian Mason, Kentish Plumber via Flickr When it comes to fighting giants, sometimes all you need is something small. In Africa, the proverbial Goliath is the iconic elephant, which not only...
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Can the Saltmarsh Sparrow Keep Its Head Above Water?
The saltmarsh sparrow (Ammodramus caudacutus). The saltmarsh sparrow is in trouble. This tiny coastal bird, which weighs less than an ounce, is rapidly disappearing from the eastern United States....
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For Some Species, the Girls Come with Boy Bits
Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in the Masai Mara, Kenya. | Credit: Laika ac Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom, by biologist,...
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How the Killer Whale Avoids Eating People, Helped 19th-Century Whalers, and...
A killer whale (Orcinus orca) jumps from the water near Canada’s Saturna Island. | Credit: Miles Ritter/Flickr Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from “The Killer Whale Who Changed the World”...
View ArticlePodcast: Talking Hummingbirds with Ann Johnson Prum
In this episode, we speak with producer and cinematographer Anne Johnson Prum. Anne has produced a number of films for NATURE including Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air in 2010 and the Emmy-nominated...
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Meet the Fig Wasps Who Hacked the System
Male fig wasps inside a fig’s synconium, the fleshy, hollow receptacle that contains its flowers. | Courtesy of Vincent Savolainen You’ll never see a fig’s flowers until you open one up. Unlike a...
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Climate Change Could Turn Up Heat on Already Vulnerable Koalas
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) | Credit: Pascal Renet/Pexel.com Koalas just can’t catch a break. Throughout their native territories in eastern Australia, the famously tree-loving marsupials face...
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Snow Leopard Conservation Gets Boost from New Tech
The snow leopard ( Panthera uncia). | Credit: USAID Afghanistan This September, researchers studying snow leopards in southern Mongolia discovered something unexpected: the big, elusive cats maintained...
View ArticlePodcast: Wildlife Cameraman Vianet D’Jenguet On ‘His Congo’
The new NATURE episode My Congo represents the first opportunity for cameraman Vianet D’Jenguet to film his native country and be in front of the camera rather than behind it. I spoke to him about the...
View ArticleNATURE’s New Crop
Audiences are still buzzing about NATURE’s season opener, Super Hummingbirds, but we’re just getting started. Our upcoming season features a cornucopia of cats, dolphins, robots, and stunning locations...
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Indochinese Leopard’s Range Has Shrunk by more than 94 Percent
A captive Indochinese leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri) at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Vietnam. | Credit: Tomáš Najer/Wikimedia The leopards of southeastern Asia are in trouble. A new study...
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How Many Giraffe Species Are There Really?
A recent study proposed that giraffes are actually comprised of four main species (from left to right): reticulated, northern, southern and Masaai. This September, Earth’s single giraffe species...
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The Making of the Cat
Credit: Eric R. Olson/NATURE From the tall grass savanna of Kenya to the forested slopes of the Rockies, from the steaming jungles of Indonesia and the crags of the Himalayas to your very own living...
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Rat Giggles Point to New ‘Joyous’ Area of the Brain
A rat receives a belly tickle. | Credit: Shimpei Ishiyama and Michael Brecht. We’ve known for a decade or so that humans aren’t the only animals who are ticklish. In 2003, researchers learned that rats...
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Could We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon (or Other Extinct Species)?
The Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius). | Credit: Hayashi and Toda Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from “The Unnatural World: the Race to Make Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age” by...
View ArticleMeet the Snail-Smashing, Fish-Spearing Mantis Shrimp
Contrary to their name, mantis shrimp aren’t actually shrimp. They belong to another group of shelled critters called stomatopods that split from other crustaceans about 400 million years ago....
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The Crab with the Kung Fu Grip
A coconut crab (Birgus latro ) on Christmas Island, an Australian Territory in the Indian Ocean . | Source: Rebecca Dominguez/ Wikimedia Poking around on the beach, you may have encountered a hermit...
View ArticleEverything You Wanted to Know About Reindeer and their Future in the Great...
This time of year one animal species gets all of the attention–that hardy, sled-pulling athlete of the North, the reindeer. To find out more about these cold-loving creatures, and their wild...
View ArticleHow to Build a ‘Spy Creature’ with Animatronic Designer John Nolan
What does it takes to make a ‘spy creature’ come alive? In the latest episode of the InsideNATURE podcast, we hear from animatronic designer John Nolan, who, along with his hardworking team, created...
View ArticleOur Increasingly ‘Unnatural World’ with Environmental Journalist David Biello
In the latest episode of the InsideNATURE podcast, we speak with David Biello, environmental journalist and author of the book “The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest...
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