Imagine an animal so baffling that the world’s best scientists once thought it was a hoax. A beast with the bill of a duck, ...

After a long and frigid winter, the sound of spring peepers singing from beaver bogs is a welcome one for New Englanders. But ...

Fairy shrimp are magical creatures that look like comic book creatures. You can view them in vernal pools this spring.

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating stories from the past year of UC research that illustrate the resilience of life on our ...

Imagine being trapped in a block of ice, your heart stopped cold, your body as stiff as glass, and yet knowing you will wake ...

Greeks have been cracking red eggs at Easter for centuries. The tradition, although it is also a fun game, is steeped in ...

Start as a wriggly, water-breathing tadpole, transform into an adult that breathes air. This is the pattern followed by all our ...

They serve as crossing guards for thousands of toads and frogs, who are trying to navigate ... reproduce in the reed beds in the coastal strip, lay eggs, and then, somewhere in mid-May, they leave the ...

As night settled across a forest in northeastern India, some “stocky” creatures with “fiery orange” eyes began calling for ...

A NATURE RESERVE NEAR SESTRORETSK, Russia (AP) — It happens every spring along a section of road north of Russia's ...