These massive wildflower blooms create colorful carpets over desert landscapes during unusually rainy years.
Surviving Hurricane Katrina inspired Elliott White Jr.’s scientific journey to studying how humans and climate change impact wetlands.
Engineers are borrowing this insect’s trick, an "invisibility cloak" of anti-reflective spheres. It could lead to new clean energy tech or military gear.
New ocean dwellers arrived millennia — maybe decades — after the Chicxulub impact. That forces a rethink of evolution's response to wipeout events.
This insight from machine-learning analyses of recordings of calls in the wild might help detect where lions are declining.
Researchers employed tools of paleontology to analyze the iconic landmark — a sidewalk critter crater made when a mystery rodent fell into wet concrete.
For ants, teamwork makes the dream work. For humans, teamwork can be a trip-up.
Sensor data reveal greater noctule bats chasing, catching and chewing on birds during nighttime hunts.
This ecological region teems with life — from coral to insect larvae to crabs.
