Four Crazy Ways Cool Creatures Survive Cold Winters

From urine recycling to hibernation on demand, here’s how four critters survive snow and frigid weather in style.

Christine Peterson

Meet The Magnificently Weird Mola Mola

Meet the Mola mola (aka sunfish), quite possibly the weirdest fish in the sea.

Justine E. Hausheer

Gar Wars: A Fish Force Awakens

A gathering force of fish conservationists is changing the narrative around gar, an ancient fish too long accused of crimes it didn’t commit.

Matthew L. Miller

Restoring Beavers by Plane and Automobile

Parachuting beavers? The remarkable story of restoring nature’s engineers.

Kris Millgate

The Millipede That Protects Itself with Cyanide

Cyanide millipedes use chemical warfare to ward off predators. They also make critical nutrients available in forest ecosystems, and yet these amazing critters are understudied.

Lisa Feldkamp

Tongue Orchids & Corpseflowers: 7 Insanely Weird Plant Species

Meet the plant that eats shrew poo, the orchid that has sex with itself, and the embarrassingly phallic titan arum.

Justine E. Hausheer

10 Really Weird Animals of the Anthropocene

From cloned wolves to high-cholesterol foxes to radioactive pigs, we look at the weirdest creatures now roaming the age of humanity.

Matthew L. Miller

Traditional Knowledge Helps Monitor Threatened Bilbies on Martu Country

Scientists and indigenous rangers are designing a new method for monitoring threatened bilby populations in Australia's Martu country.

Justine E. Hausheer

7 Cool Facts About Water Striders

They walk on water, they devour mosquito larvae and they have one of the most disturbing mating rituals on earth. Take a close look at this common insect of Northern Hemisphere ponds, creeks and puddles.

Matthew L. Miller

The Weird Tale of the Carrion-eating Swamp Wallaby

Have you ever observed a macropod consuming carrion? Share information about your own sightings, below.

Justine E. Hausheer

When Is a Black Bear Actually a Blue Bear?

The black bear: a bear that is not always black. And sometimes it’s even red, white or blue.

Matthew L. Miller

Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione on Archaeology, Conservation and Beer

Biodiversity and beer? A conversation with Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione.

Matthew L. Miller