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Did you hear? A western lowland gorilla named Mandara gave birth last Saturday at Smithsonian’s National Zoo
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When airlines want to investigate dangerous bird strikes against planes, they turn to the head of the Smithsonian’s Feather Identification Lab
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A couple of weeks ago, fishermen off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, pulled up a 20-pound lobster
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Australians of European descent might be forgiven for thinking they could turn the continent into another Europe
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If Charles Darwin had wandered up the side of the Volcan Wolf volcano in 1835, he might have spotted what is now known as the rosada (or pink) iguana
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When I visited friends in Australia earlier this year, I made visiting the Great Barrier Reef a priority
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How one man's obsession saved an "extinct" species
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Butterflies, clicking antelopes, creatures of the deep and more
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An battle between environmentalists and loggers left much of the owl's habitat protected. Now the spotted owl faces a new threat
Disparate views from on high
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The Wild Things column in the magazine is, by far, the most fun part to work on
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The oldest fossil spider was thought to be Attercopus fimbriunguis, which lived around 386 million years ago
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Earlier this year, in "On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon," Abigail Tucker immersed herself and us in the lives of chinook salmon
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These whispering bats never really whispered. Their echolocations were thought to be about 70 decibels, about the level of sound coming from speaking
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Primatologist and Amazon adventurer Marc van Roosmalen was convicted last year in Brazil of illegal wildlife trafficking and theft of government property
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I was surprised to read in the Washington Post yesterday that oak trees from northern Virginia to Nova Scotia failed to produce any acorns this year
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Chewing dinosaurs, climate change, self-sacrificing ants and black bears
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