Mighty tails

FOSSIL EVIDENCE TELLS US THAT insects have put wings to good use in their domination of the planet for the past 325 million years. However, some of these insects have given up their various motile fla

IN CENTRAL BRAZIL, SAFARI DRIVES REVEAL THE WORLD’S MOST BIODIVERSE SAVANNAH, WHERE BLACK JAGUARS PROWL.

In Sydney, Australia, sulfur-crested cockatoos have a reputation for raiding skips and bins and being able to figure out a way past almost any lock people might use to try and keep them out. Now, they

Rare and elusive, African wild dogs have incredible hunting abilities and display group dynamics we could learn a lot from THE LION TRACKS ARE FRESH. Though I’m only an amateur, even I know this becau

The spider-tailed horned viper contains the raw ingredients of two of the world’s most common phobias: arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). The only way it could possibl

When European scientists first set eyes on the platypus, in the form of a pelt and a sketch shipped over from Australia in 1798, they couldn’t believe it. The specimen was so bizarre that English zool