How a sanctuary outside LA has cared for rare, endangered gibbons for a half-century

Over the past 50 years, the Gibbon Conservation Center has become a globally recognized institution dedicated to the care and ...

Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents

Just like Fat Bear Week, an online contest to vote for Alaskan brown bears plumped up for winter, Fat Marmot Week — beginning ...

How to See Pacific Salmon Make Their Epic Annual Migration

SalmonCam livestreams and national parks offer a front row seat to watch as millions of salmon leap upstream—avoiding the ...

Scottish Highland cows have become a pop culture phenomenon

You don’t have to go very far these days to see a Highland cow. In fact, you don’t even need to leave your armchair.
Scientific American

Some microbes could survive on the moon—that’s a big problem for NASA

Five common microorganisms found on Earth could survive at the lunar south pole, a new study finds, presenting a ...
Nature

How do people live beyond 110? Abundance of cancer-killing cells might be key

People who live to 110 years and older have large populations of a rare type of immune cell that can kill cancer 1, finds a ...

These Animals Change Colors to Survive. Here’s How Camouflage Works.

In nature, the ability to change color can be key to survival. Vision is a very important sense in much of the animal kingdom ...

How body size and habitat shape the vocal repertoires of primates

Biologists, zoologists and psychologists have been trying to trace the origins of human language for centuries. One well-known theory, known as the social brain hypothesis, suggests that increasingly ...