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CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything in GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges.LAST TREE STANDING
Today, the last remaining sequoias are limited to 75 groves scattered along a narrow belt of the western Sierra Nevada, some 15 miles wide by 250 miles long. Giant sequoias are among the longest-living organisms on Earth. Though no one knows the trees’ absolute expiry date, the oldest ever recorded is 3,200 years old. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus on SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks AMI VITALE - BIOGRAPHIC Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 90 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Vitale is an Ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine. BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything in GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges.LAST TREE STANDING
Today, the last remaining sequoias are limited to 75 groves scattered along a narrow belt of the western Sierra Nevada, some 15 miles wide by 250 miles long. Giant sequoias are among the longest-living organisms on Earth. Though no one knows the trees’ absolute expiry date, the oldest ever recorded is 3,200 years old. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus on SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks AMI VITALE - BIOGRAPHIC Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 90 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Vitale is an Ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine. THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winningSCALES OF REFERENCE
Dwindling to a trickle. Like most sockeye, those from the Skeena hatch and die in freshwater but spend much of their adult lives at sea. Starting as pea-sized eggs in upstream tributaries, they migrate as fry to a complex of cold-water lakes that dot the river system like bulbous beads on a thread and harbor at least 13 genetically distinct sockeye population groups.RECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
HOME ON THE RANGE
Home on the Range. Once thought to be extinct, tule elk have returned to roam across California's Point Reyes National Seashore, but the park—which also supports beef and dairy cattle—is getting crowded. Point Reyes sits at the western edge of Marin County, California, a pick-axe shaped peninsula that juts between the pounding waves of the AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges. THE BIG PICTURE 2020 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Tony Wu, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning images A NEW HOPE - BIOGRAPHIC A New Hope. Discovered a mere four years ago, the Skywalker gibbon quickly landed on the list of the world's 25 most endangered primates. While its status remains precarious, the species is inspiring a newfound effort to protect and restore the forests of China’s Gaoligong Mountains.SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge.TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus onDARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winningRECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything in AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
DARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus onHERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
EMILY SOHN - BIOGRAPHIC Emily Sohn is a freelance science journalist in Minneapolis whose stories have appeared in Nature, The Washington Post, NPR, Aeon, Discovery News, Hakai Magazine, and many other publications. Standing Guard 12.24.2019 Photo Essay. - The population of this critically endangered bird has stabilized thanks to the conservationists who lookafter
THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winningRECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything in AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
DARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus onHERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
EMILY SOHN - BIOGRAPHIC Emily Sohn is a freelance science journalist in Minneapolis whose stories have appeared in Nature, The Washington Post, NPR, Aeon, Discovery News, Hakai Magazine, and many other publications. Standing Guard 12.24.2019 Photo Essay. - The population of this critically endangered bird has stabilized thanks to the conservationists who lookafter
PLACES - BIOGRAPHIC
Places - bioGraphic. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, this photographic showcase of life on Earth shines a light on some of our planet's most amazing species and places. Antarctica’s Upside Down World 05.12.2021 Article. SOLUTIONS - BIOGRAPHIC Solutions. Explore the most promising new technologies, tools, and ideas for addressing our planet’s greatest sustainability challenges. - The new book Beloved Beasts hacks through the undergrowth of the conservation movement in search of a clear path forward. - Collected at the tail end of British Columbia's "silver fever," hundred-year-old THE BIG PICTURE 2020 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Tony Wu, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning images AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges. FROM LEAF TO LANDSCAPE Despite long periods without rainfall the forest’s five-month dry season is a period of rebirth in the rainforest canopy. Having dropped their old leaves at the end of the wet season (July), trees begin to grow new foliage. By November, leaves less than six months old outnumber older leaves. This shift in leaf “quality,” asscientists
DARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
LAST GRASP - BIOGRAPHIC After latching onto an animal it wants to eat, a fish quickly opens its jaws wide to create a vacuum that pulls the prey from the mouth into the throat. With little room for such maneuvers in the tight spaces they haunt, moray eels have evolved a different solution. The moment an eel grabs a large fish, squid, or octopus with its outerjaws, a
LAST TREE STANDING
The giant sequoia has dominated its landscape for millions of years and captivated global imagination since the mid-19th century when rumors of trees the size of fairy-tale beanstalks came roaring out of the Sierras. One of four redwood species, the giant sequoia is not the world’s tallest tree; that crown belongs to its northern cousin, thecoast redwood.
MARCH OF THE FLAMINGOS But alkali-loving microbes thrive in these harsh conditions, staining the water the intense reds and greens that McKenzie saw from above. These same microbes sustain a population of approximately 1.5 million bright pink lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor).The flamingos slurp up the algae (Arthrospira fusiformis) through their crooked beaks, perfectly adapted for filter feeding. THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winningRECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything in AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
DARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus onHERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
EMILY SOHN - BIOGRAPHIC Emily Sohn is a freelance science journalist in Minneapolis whose stories have appeared in Nature, The Washington Post, NPR, Aeon, Discovery News, Hakai Magazine, and many other publications. Standing Guard 12.24.2019 Photo Essay. - The population of this critically endangered bird has stabilized thanks to the conservationists who lookafter
THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winningRECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything in AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
DARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus onHERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
EMILY SOHN - BIOGRAPHIC Emily Sohn is a freelance science journalist in Minneapolis whose stories have appeared in Nature, The Washington Post, NPR, Aeon, Discovery News, Hakai Magazine, and many other publications. Standing Guard 12.24.2019 Photo Essay. - The population of this critically endangered bird has stabilized thanks to the conservationists who lookafter
PLACES - BIOGRAPHIC
Places - bioGraphic. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, this photographic showcase of life on Earth shines a light on some of our planet's most amazing species and places. Antarctica’s Upside Down World 05.12.2021 Article. SOLUTIONS - BIOGRAPHIC Solutions. Explore the most promising new technologies, tools, and ideas for addressing our planet’s greatest sustainability challenges. - The new book Beloved Beasts hacks through the undergrowth of the conservation movement in search of a clear path forward. - Collected at the tail end of British Columbia's "silver fever," hundred-year-old THE BIG PICTURE 2020 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Tony Wu, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning images AFRICA’S PANDEMIC-FUELED CONSERVATION CRISIS Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges. FROM LEAF TO LANDSCAPE Despite long periods without rainfall the forest’s five-month dry season is a period of rebirth in the rainforest canopy. Having dropped their old leaves at the end of the wet season (July), trees begin to grow new foliage. By November, leaves less than six months old outnumber older leaves. This shift in leaf “quality,” asscientists
DARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
LAST GRASP - BIOGRAPHIC After latching onto an animal it wants to eat, a fish quickly opens its jaws wide to create a vacuum that pulls the prey from the mouth into the throat. With little room for such maneuvers in the tight spaces they haunt, moray eels have evolved a different solution. The moment an eel grabs a large fish, squid, or octopus with its outerjaws, a
LAST TREE STANDING
The giant sequoia has dominated its landscape for millions of years and captivated global imagination since the mid-19th century when rumors of trees the size of fairy-tale beanstalks came roaring out of the Sierras. One of four redwood species, the giant sequoia is not the world’s tallest tree; that crown belongs to its northern cousin, thecoast redwood.
MARCH OF THE FLAMINGOS But alkali-loving microbes thrive in these harsh conditions, staining the water the intense reds and greens that McKenzie saw from above. These same microbes sustain a population of approximately 1.5 million bright pink lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor).The flamingos slurp up the algae (Arthrospira fusiformis) through their crooked beaks, perfectly adapted for filter feeding. BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything in THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winningLAST TREE STANDING
Today, the last remaining sequoias are limited to 75 groves scattered along a narrow belt of the western Sierra Nevada, some 15 miles wide by 250 miles long. Giant sequoias are among the longest-living organisms on Earth. Though no one knows the trees’ absolute expiry date, the oldest ever recorded is 3,200 years old.SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge.DARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
AMI VITALE - BIOGRAPHIC Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 90 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Vitale is an Ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine. SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything inDARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
AMI VITALE - BIOGRAPHIC Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 90 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Vitale is an Ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine.HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
TAKING DOWN GOLIATH
Weighing up to 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), goliath frogs are the largest living frogs on the planet. “They’re basically the size of a human infant,” says herpetologist David Blackburn from the Florida Museum of Natural History, “and they’ll eat just about anything: insects, crabs, fish, toads and other frogs, even small mammals.”.RECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
HOME ON THE RANGE
Home on the Range. Once thought to be extinct, tule elk have returned to roam across California's Point Reyes National Seashore, but the park—which also supports beef and dairy cattle—is getting crowded. Point Reyes sits at the western edge of Marin County, California, a pick-axe shaped peninsula that juts between the pounding waves of the THE BIG PICTURE 2020 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Tony Wu, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning imagesSCALES OF REFERENCE
Price’s analysis suggests the Kitwanga sockeye populations have declined 71 percent since historical times—from an average of 29,000 between 1913 and 1923 to less than 9,000 per year from 2007 to 2014. In all of 2007, the year with the lowest return in the river’s recent history, only 240 sockeye swam past the fence. FROM LEAF TO LANDSCAPE Despite long periods without rainfall the forest’s five-month dry season is a period of rebirth in the rainforest canopy. Having dropped their old leaves at the end of the wet season (July), trees begin to grow new foliage. By November, leaves less than six months old outnumber older leaves. This shift in leaf “quality,” asscientists
SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge. GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
LAST TREE STANDING
The giant sequoia has dominated its landscape for millions of years and captivated global imagination since the mid-19th century when rumors of trees the size of fairy-tale beanstalks came roaring out of the Sierras. One of four redwood species, the giant sequoia is not the world’s tallest tree; that crown belongs to its northern cousin, thecoast redwood.
DARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus on BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything inDARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
AMI VITALE - BIOGRAPHIC Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 90 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Vitale is an Ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine.HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
TAKING DOWN GOLIATH
Weighing up to 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), goliath frogs are the largest living frogs on the planet. “They’re basically the size of a human infant,” says herpetologist David Blackburn from the Florida Museum of Natural History, “and they’ll eat just about anything: insects, crabs, fish, toads and other frogs, even small mammals.”. BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything inDARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
AMI VITALE - BIOGRAPHIC Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 90 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Vitale is an Ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine.HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
TAKING DOWN GOLIATH
Weighing up to 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), goliath frogs are the largest living frogs on the planet. “They’re basically the size of a human infant,” says herpetologist David Blackburn from the Florida Museum of Natural History, “and they’ll eat just about anything: insects, crabs, fish, toads and other frogs, even small mammals.”.HOME ON THE RANGE
Home on the Range. Once thought to be extinct, tule elk have returned to roam across California's Point Reyes National Seashore, but the park—which also supports beef and dairy cattle—is getting crowded. Point Reyes sits at the western edge of Marin County, California, a pick-axe shaped peninsula that juts between the pounding waves of theRECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
SCALES OF REFERENCE
Price’s analysis suggests the Kitwanga sockeye populations have declined 71 percent since historical times—from an average of 29,000 between 1913 and 1923 to less than 9,000 per year from 2007 to 2014. In all of 2007, the year with the lowest return in the river’s recent history, only 240 sockeye swam past the fence. THE BIG PICTURE 2020 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Tony Wu, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning images FROM LEAF TO LANDSCAPE Despite long periods without rainfall the forest’s five-month dry season is a period of rebirth in the rainforest canopy. Having dropped their old leaves at the end of the wet season (July), trees begin to grow new foliage. By November, leaves less than six months old outnumber older leaves. This shift in leaf “quality,” asscientists
SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge.ARE YOU MY MOTHER?
Are You My Mother? Before a timber rattlesnake mom leaves her babies to fend for themselves, she passes on an important piece of information: her scent. Photograph by John Cancalosi. Story by Skylar Knight. Share. Beneath the sandstone slabs of Pennsylvania’s woodlands, female timber rattlesnakes ( Crotalus horridus) gather tobirth their young.
LAST TREE STANDING
The giant sequoia has dominated its landscape for millions of years and captivated global imagination since the mid-19th century when rumors of trees the size of fairy-tale beanstalks came roaring out of the Sierras. One of four redwood species, the giant sequoia is not the world’s tallest tree; that crown belongs to its northern cousin, thecoast redwood.
GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus on BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything inDARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
AMI VITALE - BIOGRAPHIC Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 90 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Vitale is an Ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine.HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
TAKING DOWN GOLIATH
Weighing up to 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), goliath frogs are the largest living frogs on the planet. “They’re basically the size of a human infant,” says herpetologist David Blackburn from the Florida Museum of Natural History, “and they’ll eat just about anything: insects, crabs, fish, toads and other frogs, even small mammals.”. BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
THE BIG PICTURE 2021 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Morgan Heim, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything inDARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
AMI VITALE - BIOGRAPHIC Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 90 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Vitale is an Ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine.HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networks SNAKE FAKE - BIOGRAPHIC Dangling from a twig, it reveals an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle awaya hungry
TAKING DOWN GOLIATH
Weighing up to 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), goliath frogs are the largest living frogs on the planet. “They’re basically the size of a human infant,” says herpetologist David Blackburn from the Florida Museum of Natural History, “and they’ll eat just about anything: insects, crabs, fish, toads and other frogs, even small mammals.”.HOME ON THE RANGE
Home on the Range. Once thought to be extinct, tule elk have returned to roam across California's Point Reyes National Seashore, but the park—which also supports beef and dairy cattle—is getting crowded. Point Reyes sits at the western edge of Marin County, California, a pick-axe shaped peninsula that juts between the pounding waves of theRECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
SCALES OF REFERENCE
Price’s analysis suggests the Kitwanga sockeye populations have declined 71 percent since historical times—from an average of 29,000 between 1913 and 1923 to less than 9,000 per year from 2007 to 2014. In all of 2007, the year with the lowest return in the river’s recent history, only 240 sockeye swam past the fence. THE BIG PICTURE 2020 Each year, the California Academy of Sciences’ renowned BigPicture Photography Competition celebrates some of the world’s best photographers and the year’s most striking images. Judged by an esteemed panel of nature and conservation photography experts, including Suzi Eszterhas, Tony Wu, and bioGraphic contributing photo editor Sophie Stafford, the competition’s winning images FROM LEAF TO LANDSCAPE Despite long periods without rainfall the forest’s five-month dry season is a period of rebirth in the rainforest canopy. Having dropped their old leaves at the end of the wet season (July), trees begin to grow new foliage. By November, leaves less than six months old outnumber older leaves. This shift in leaf “quality,” asscientists
SWAMP SENTINELS
Swamp Sentinels. Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future. In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge.ARE YOU MY MOTHER?
Are You My Mother? Before a timber rattlesnake mom leaves her babies to fend for themselves, she passes on an important piece of information: her scent. Photograph by John Cancalosi. Story by Skylar Knight. Share. Beneath the sandstone slabs of Pennsylvania’s woodlands, female timber rattlesnakes ( Crotalus horridus) gather tobirth their young.
LAST TREE STANDING
The giant sequoia has dominated its landscape for millions of years and captivated global imagination since the mid-19th century when rumors of trees the size of fairy-tale beanstalks came roaring out of the Sierras. One of four redwood species, the giant sequoia is not the world’s tallest tree; that crown belongs to its northern cousin, thecoast redwood.
GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus on BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
RECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything inDARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
A PRECARIOUS PERCH
Ten minutes in, a kite is circling overhead, delivering an alarm call that sounds like a squeaky toy in the clutches of a hyperactive dog. As the kite falls silent, Kent looks away for a moment to adjust her stool. When she looks back toward the net, it’s there—more a clump of black and white feathers than a bird.DEATHLY BEAUTIFUL
Doug Perrine is a photojournalist specializing in marine wildlife.His photographs have been published in thousands of magazines, books, and calendars, and have won numerous awards, including the grand prize in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networksTAKING DOWN GOLIATH
Weighing up to 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), goliath frogs are the largest living frogs on the planet. “They’re basically the size of a human infant,” says herpetologist David Blackburn from the Florida Museum of Natural History, “and they’ll eat just about anything: insects, crabs, fish, toads and other frogs, even small mammals.”. BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONSWILD LIFEPLACESSYSTEMSPEOPLEDISCOVERIESSOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
RECORDS OF CHANGE
Live. •. Changes in the biodiversity of various ecosystems around the world often happen slowly, imperceptibly, and it can be difficult to know what’s even been lost over years and decades—there’s simply no baseline to compare against. But tucked away in a small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, California is a scientificcollection
CONSERVATION HERO: JEAN WIENER Over twenty years ago, Wiener set out, alone, on an almost impossible journey—to revive the seas and coasts of one the most dilapidated nations on Earth. His crusade would mobilize entire villages and rescue hundreds of thousands of acres of endangered corals, critical wetlands, and everything inDARWIN'S FOX
On December 6, 1832, Charles Darwin—then just one year into his famous five-year stint as a naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle—scrambled up a rocky embankment on the coast of Chile’s Chiloé Island and discovered that he had company. There, gazing out with great curiosity at the ship that was anchored offshore, sat asmall, gray fox.
GREATEST SHOAL ON EARTH Greatest Shoal on Earth. One of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. Almost every May and June, hundreds of millions of South African sardines ( Sardinops sagax) embark on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey so spectacular that themodest term
A PRECARIOUS PERCH
Ten minutes in, a kite is circling overhead, delivering an alarm call that sounds like a squeaky toy in the clutches of a hyperactive dog. As the kite falls silent, Kent looks away for a moment to adjust her stool. When she looks back toward the net, it’s there—more a clump of black and white feathers than a bird.DEATHLY BEAUTIFUL
Doug Perrine is a photojournalist specializing in marine wildlife.His photographs have been published in thousands of magazines, books, and calendars, and have won numerous awards, including the grand prize in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. THE TREE THAT ATE THE WEST The Tree That Ate the West. Both native and invasive—protected and reviled—western junipers are a living contradiction. At the Flatiron Rock Trailhead in central Oregon’s Badlands Wilderness, a gnarled stump reaches out of a crack in the rocks. A centuries-old juniper tree stood here until last December, when vandals illegally cut itdown
HERDING MEERKATS
Distributed across the open, arid habitats of southern Africa, these small but voracious carnivores forage by day, eating nearly anything they can dig up or chase down—most often insects, but also reptiles, birds, eggs, rodents, and scorpions. With little cover among the dunes and shrubs of the desert, meerkats rely heavily on vast networksTAKING DOWN GOLIATH
Weighing up to 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), goliath frogs are the largest living frogs on the planet. “They’re basically the size of a human infant,” says herpetologist David Blackburn from the Florida Museum of Natural History, “and they’ll eat just about anything: insects, crabs, fish, toads and other frogs, even small mammals.”. BIOGRAPHIC | REVEALING NATURE // INSPIRING SOLUTIONS Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear. The Big Picture 2021 05.27.2021 Photo Gallery. - From the beautiful to the bizarre, thisphotographic
SOLUTIONS - BIOGRAPHIC Solutions. Explore the most promising new technologies, tools, and ideas for addressing our planet’s greatest sustainability challenges. - The new book Beloved Beasts hacks through the undergrowth of the conservation movement in search of a clear path forward. - Collected at the tail end of British Columbia's "silver fever," hundred-year-oldDEATHLY BEAUTIFUL
Doug Perrine is a photojournalist specializing in marine wildlife.His photographs have been published in thousands of magazines, books, and calendars, and have won numerous awards, including the grand prize in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.THE SCENT OF WATER
The rather inconvenient link between the nose and the lungs, however, means that most mammals have lost the ability to smell underwater, since inhaling a breath full of water has obvious drawbacks. Indeed, even mammals that spend their lives in the ocean, such as toothed whales, have entirely lost the sense of smell. But there areexceptions.
THE RESERVOIR
The gachhi we’re searching for is not just any sap collector. He’s rumored to make and sell tari, a fermented brew that’s popular among men in this part of northern Bangladesh—especially bus drivers, truckers, and day laborers—but one that’s prohibited for two reasons.In this predominantly Muslim nation tucked under the crook of India’s east arm, consumption of alcoholicLAST TREE STANDING
The giant sequoia has dominated its landscape for millions of years and captivated global imagination since the mid-19th century when rumors of trees the size of fairy-tale beanstalks came roaring out of the Sierras. One of four redwood species, the giant sequoia is not the world’s tallest tree; that crown belongs to its northern cousin, thecoast redwood.
RACE AGAINST THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK Eduardo Blanco Mendizabal is is an award-winning photographer, nature guide, and conservationist. His work has been published all over the world and has garnered more than 50 awards, including the 2019 GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year. He has published two books titled, Fotografiar con mal tiempo, un buen momentoand Bardenas Reales, en busca de la luz.BOBCAT MANOR
Bobcat Manor. Despite increasing hunting pressure, bobcats have proven themselves to be remarkably resilient in the face of human encroachment—and aren’t above raising their young in rural backyards. On an already-hot summer morning in south Texas, a mother bobcat ( Lynx rufus) emerges from her den and performs a quick safetycheck.
TURNING TURTLE
Christian Miller is an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, best known for his underwater images. His passion for the oceans brought Christian from his native Germany to Australia, where he participates in environmental projects that focus on KEEPING PYGMY SLOTHS AFLOAT There are six known species of sloths in total, including both two-toed and three-toed varieties. Scientists described B. pygmaeus as a new species in 2001, based mainly on its size: Pygmy sloths are roughly 40 percent smaller than the average sloth, and lighter, too, with more modest skulls. They eat the leaves of red mangrove (Rhizophora
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Billfish Bounty
11.25.2020
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slices through a shoal of baitfish, a beautiful reminder of the struggle between predator and prey—as well as the fragility and importance of healthy ecosystems.Chennai Ran Out
of Water — But That’s Only Half the Story10.30.2020
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flooding and bridge droughts, India’s southern coastal metropolis is using ancient knowledge, community action, and wetlands restoration to better harness its monsoon rains.Northern
Lights from the Deep10.28.2020
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could easily be an atmospheric apparition is in fact a formidable predator, and a critical member of its strange, open-ocean ecosystemThe Gibbon’s Tail
10.14.2020
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rarest ape, survival may depend on stories passed down for centuries among the people of its Chinese island home.A Novel Demise
09.22.2020
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- Although we’ve
marveled over carnivorous plants for centuries, the plants’ penchant for vertebrate flesh has been largely overlooked. Raising Nature on Florida Ranchlands08.11.2020
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“Ranchers vs Environmentalists” is a longstanding trope. But in the Sunshine State, ranching just may be the last, best hope for ecological salvation.Pandemics of
Our Own Making
07.21.2020
Opinion
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critical that we devote our scientific ingenuity to beating back the current pandemic, we must also address our broken relationship with nature in a concerted effort to prevent similar outbreaks in thefuture.
Wanted Alive
07.14.2020
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- For the first time in decades, Icelandic whalers have stopped hunting fin whales, thanks in part to a growing appreciation for the value these mammals bring to both marine and human communities.The Big Picture
2020 05.05.2020
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beautiful to the bizarre, this photographic showcase of life on Earth shines a light on some of our planet's most amazing species andplaces.
Farming
Insects to Save Lemurs03.19.2020
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reimagined approach to an age-old practice is helping to fight malnutrition in Madagascar—and may have the added benefit of protecting the island nation's imperiled primates and the forests theycall home.
Saving
Mexico’s Lost World02.18.2020
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- Microbes
have lived in Cuatro Ciénegas for 500 million years. They’ve survived countless cataclysms and extinctions. But can they surviveus?
Records of Change
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Against the Biological Clock12.24.2019
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- It
turns out some contests between predators and their prey are more genetically determined than others.Standing Guard
12.24.2019
Photo Essay
- The population of this critically endangered bird has stabilized thanks to the conservationists who look after them, but what happens if thecaretakers leave?
Cancer at Sea
12.11.2019
Article
- A mysterious disease afflicting California sea lions is helping scientists understand the causes of cancer in all animals—including humans. Mexico City and its Sacred Salamanders12.10.2019
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Important symbols of both Mexican culture and ecosystem health, axolotls are on the brink of extinction in the wild, but a return to ancient practices offers hope for their future.The Scent of Water
12.10.2019
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- Most mammals
can’t smell underwater, but Eurasian otters may have a way of sniffing out prey even while swimming.A Great
Escape 12.03.2019
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- Invasive American mink, having escaped from British fur farms over the past century, are now wreaking havoc on native species—but this lucky gannet got away.A
(Proposed) Pipeline Runs Through It12.03.2019
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would divide mountains, farmland, and sacred Native American land along its 600-mile route, but it's uniting a diverse community of activists determined to halt its progress.Refilling the
Carbon Sink
11.12.2019
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Long seen as wastelands, Scotland’s bogs are now the scene of an intense restoration effort in which millions of exotic trees are being felled to fight climate change.Layers
of Life 11.12.2019
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- On a crowded coral reef, species often make their homes on top of one another (literally), living lives that are tightly intertwined both biologically and evolutionarily.Beguiling Intruder
10.30.2019
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- Lionfish are
hungry, long-lived, and extremely fertile invaders in their new-foundAtlantic home.
Song of the
Mountain Chicken
10.30.2019
Article
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giant frogs—once a delicacy on two Caribbean islands—were almost wiped out by disease and natural disasters. But their resilience and years of dedicated conservation efforts have kept hope for the speciesalive.
Restoring Harmony in Haida Gwaii10.15.2019
Article
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collaboration between Haida tradition and Western science may offer a way to bolster both Haida culture and the marine ecosystem intertwinedwith it.
Snake Fake
10.15.2019
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- For a plump caterpillar with no defensive body parts, masquerading as a deadly viper is an effective adaptation for survival in the Peruvian Amazon.Strength in Numbers
09.26.2019
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- A spirited game of tug-of-war is more than just a sweet moment among siblings—it’s a sign of an African wild dog pack with enough members to keep its pups both safe and well-fed.A Plague of Cactus
09.26.2019
Article
- Across Kenya’s
wildlife-rich Laikipia Plateau, a thorny enemy is advancing. But a tiny sap-sucking insect may help save the region’s animals andpeople.
The Secret Garden
09.11.2019
Photo Essay
- The crystalline
rivers of the Serra da Bodoquena offer a window into Brazil’s freshwater biodiversity. But with deforestation on the rise, that window is becoming cloudier.A Precarious Perch
08.27.2019
Article
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kites have lost much of their habitat in the southeastern United States, but thanks to an unlikely ally, their numbers are beginning toclimb.
Unexpected
Playmate 08.27.2019Spotlight
- A young humpback
whale is spotted off the coast of Sri Lanka. Is it a sign of a promising trend, or just a fluke?Bobcat Manor
08.14.2019
Photo Essay
- Despite increasing hunting pressure, bobcats have proven themselves to be remarkably resilient in the face of human encroachment—and aren’t above raising their young in rural backyards.Enemy of My Enemy
08.14.2019
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- An Amazonian frog
finds refuge under the watchful compound gaze of a surprisingguardian.
Lens of Time:
Jaw Jumpers
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Sometimes the best solution to a sticky situation is a quick escape, and few escapes are faster than a trap-jaw ant’s.Sucker Deception
07.30.2019
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- Mesmerizing
bioluminescence is a rare trait—and a clever lure—for thisdeep-sea drifter.
Ghosts of the
Everglades
07.11.2019
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Clinging to survival in shrinking swamps, ghost orchids are so elusive that their pollinators have remained unknown—until now. One team’s findings may help to save both the flower and its threatened home.Raised in Rice
Fields 06.26.2019
Article
- California’s
Chinook salmon have been losing habitat to agriculture for decades. Now, they’re getting a much-needed boost from strategically floodedfields.
Handle With
Care 06.26.2019
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- For one of the most heavily persecuted creatures on the planet, protection sometimes requires a very hands-on approach.Bounty
Hunter 06.12.2019
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- When the Cape fur seals along the Namibian coast have their pups each December, the desert’s top scavengers become seal-hunting specialists. Hawaii’s Ancient Aquaculture Revival06.12.2019
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an ocean state that now imports half of its seafood, a determined group of activists is restoring the age-old aquaculture practices ofNative Hawaiians.
The Lobster
Wars 05.29.2019
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- In one coastal
Mexican town, a sustainable fishery anchors the community. So why has Florida outlawed the same fishing methods?Assume the Position
05.29.2019
Spotlight
- A master of
disguise, this rainforest dweller doesn’t just wear the perfect outfit, it also performs the flawless impression of a tree branch.Hands Full
05.13.2019
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- Successfully raising a single infant is challenging enough that gorillas rarely have twins. But both of these babies are thriving, thanks to a few extra helpinghands.
The Big Picture 201904.30.2019
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beautiful to the bizarre, this photographic showcase of life on Earth shines a light on some of our planet's most amazing species andplaces.
Deathly Beautiful
04.18.2019 Spotlight- This picturesque
battle between a blue dragon sea slug and a Portuguese man o’ war is a matter of life or death—for both parties.Below the Bill
04.09.2019
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- One of the world’s largest birds has long been persecuted for both its outsized bill and its eating habits, but an ambitious cross-border plan is helping this threatened pelican bounce back. Mighty Mom 03.17.2019Spotlight
- One of the most attentive of all insect parents, this tiny treehopper fiercely defends her offspring until they're fully grown, using her thorn-shaped headdress as both shield and intimidation tool.Protected
by Prawns 03.17.2019Video
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crustaceans along West Africa’s Senegal River may be a critical step in controlling one of the world’s deadliest tropical diseases.Allure of the
Flower Hat
02.27.2019
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02.07.2019
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- To understand how and why these highly social animals have evolved such complex systems of cooperation, scientists have resorted to a very simple strategy. Resurrecting the Greenback, Take Two02.07.2019
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After a case of mistaken identity, scientists face an upstream swim tosave a fabled fish.
Banquet on Legs
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- When an octopus known for its size and hunting prowess encounters a football-field-sized team of spider crabs, the outcome isn’t what you might expect.The Unsung Reef
01.25.2019
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- Australia's corals may get all the headlines, but the country's kelp-dominated temperate reefs are at least as important and imperiled. Now they're finally getting the restoration focus they deserve. Where the Rainforest Meets the Road01.08.2019
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Community-led conservation has taken root in a remote corner of Papua New Guinea. Now the plan’s architects must ensure that ecological protection and economic prosperity can coexist.Mobile Home
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- This caterpillar combines next-level camouflage and shelter-building to disappear into one of the most vibrant and biodiverse ecosystems on the planet.The Wreckers
12.12.2018
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- The lionfish that haunt one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks are now laying claim tonew battlegrounds.
The Reservoir
12.12.2018
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bat-borne virus you've probably never heard of is poised to become the next pandemic—and medicine alone may not be sufficient to stop it. Is an ecological intervention the answer?Spider House Rules
11.06.2018
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- For these hunters, no right-sized target is off-limits—regardless of whether or not ithas a backbone.
The Better
to Bite You With
10.23.2018
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Finding—and defending—prime fruit-picking perches is no easy task in the rainforest, but toucans have a few tricks up their beaks.Open Wide
10.09.2018
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- Their prey may be tiny, but these Indian mackerel need both gaping mouths and an assist from their school-mates to successfully snag a meal.Sounds of Survival
10.09.2018
Video
- A quest to record a quiet frog’s call may mean the difference between its survival andits extinction.
It’s
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Shockingly, being eaten alive by dozens of hungry wasp larvae may haveits advantages.
Lens of Time: The Art of Staying Stable08.27.2018
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A tiny copper cannonball is no match for this hawkmoth's hoveringprowess.
Raising Joey
08.27.2018
Spotlight
- Kangaroo Island’s iconic animals are orphaned all too often by speeding cars. But a dedicated group of volunteers is working to save as many survivors aspossible.
The Long Haul
08.15.2018
Spotlight
- While its partner is away on a long-distance foraging expedition, this sooty albatross patiently holds down the nest and awaits its turn to find food—contributing to an equal partnership that will last a lifetime.Double Fisted
07.31.2018
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- Grabbing ahold with both claws, a crab defends itself—and steers the course of another species’ evolution.Facing the Day
07.18.2018
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- Before embarking on an icy fishing expedition in the Southern Ocean, king penguins pause to soak up the morning’s first light.Fulfilling a
Promise 06.26.2018
Opinion
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protected areas is a critical first step, but reaping their benefit requires more than lines on maps.Dine and Dash
06.12.2018
Spotlight
- For American pikas, the rush to store enough food for winter is becoming more hazardous—and climate change isn’t the only culprit. Lens of Time: Growing Against the Odds06.12.2018
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As reefs endure another onslaught, scientists are taking a closer look at how corals live and grow—and what may enable some of them to persist in a changing world.Basking on the
Brink 06.05.2018
Photo Essay
- An "unholy" river
in India may be the last, best hope for one of the world's largest and most imperiled crocodilians.By the Skin of
His Teeth
05.08.2018
Spotlight - On
the island of Nauru, a young noddy hunter practices a skill that’s been passed down for centuries—one that now requires more patience.The Big Picture
2018 05.01.2018
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beautiful to the bizarre, this photographic showcase of life on Earth shines a light on some of our planet's most amazing species andplaces.
Lens of Time: Huddle Masters04.24.2018
Video
- Emperor
penguins just may be the best huddlers on Earth—and scientists are finally revealing the secrets to their success.Mystic Minipizza
04.24.2018
Spotlight
- This might be your only chance to meet the best-named fish in the sea. High Drama 04.19.2018Spotlight
- Sometimes the best way out of a sticky situation is up, up and away.Pacific Piggyback
03.27.2018 Spotlight- Aboard a reef
dweller that acts as a living cruise ship, this tiny hitchhiker may receive much more than just a free ride from one patch of coral toanother.
Taking Down Goliath
03.08.2018
Spotlight
- The world’s
largest frogs are also among the most coveted in the African bushmeat trade. Can grassroots efforts save the goliath frog from extinction?A
Helping Hand 02.28.2018Spotlight
- Specialized though it may be, Madagascar’s largest living lemur may need an extra hand to survive in a rapidly changing world. Keeping Pygmy Sloths Afloat02.20.2018
Photo Essay
- They do
almost everything else in slow motion, but Panama’s pygmy sloths are surprisingly proficient swimmers—and they find relative safety inthe sea.
Face Off
02.20.2018
Spotlight
- With eight eyes, two hydraulic legs, and impressive cognitive abilities, this jumping spider has a leg up on even the feistiest prey.Head over Heels
02.13.2018
Spotlight
- To woo a potential mate, a male humpback whale pulls out some surprisingly smooth—andtender—moves.
The Anomalies:
Venom Race
02.06.2018
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of scorpions is evolving increasingly deadly toxins, and scientists might finally know how and why. Beach Crashers 02.06.2018Spotlight
- Risking it all, some orcas have taken their hunt onto the shore, and their strategy iscatching on.
Quiver Kingdom
01.23.2018
Spotlight
- Quiver trees thrive in arid conditions, but as climate change makes the Namib Desert hotter and drier, can these immobile icons find a way to beat the heat? Lens of Time: A Record-Breaking Tongue Lashing01.17.2018
Video
- The smallest chameleons on Earth perform one of the most explosive movements in the animal kingdom.Golden Hour
01.17.2018
Spotlight
- For these spectacular South American birds, the key to attracting a mate is finding—and fighting for—the right time and place to shine.The Pond of Youth
01.09.2018
Spotlight
- A simple lifeform, prevalent in freshwater pools the world over, could reveal the secret to ever-lasting life.Boxing Day
01.02.2018
Spotlight
- Female hares can deftly defend themselves when unwelcome suitors pay a visit, but when climate change comes calling, fighting back proves more difficult. Unexpected Dinner Guests12.19.2017
Spotlight
- Something
strange is happening off the northern coast of Norway—transforming natural enemies into unlikely partners.Hammerhead
Gaze 12.13.2017
Spotlight
- This apex predator's widely set eyes give it much better binocular vision than most sharks—just one of several reasons why hammerheads are suchsuccessful hunters.
The Rainforest
Next Door
12.05.2017
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Just minutes from a major metropolis, Malaysia’s Penang Hill rainforest boasts some of the richest backyard biodiversity on theplanet.
Life Stories
11.07.2017
Opinion
- In today’s world, solutions-based science and environment stories aren’t just a pleasant diversion—they’re a critical step toward a healthy futurefor our species.
Lens
of Time: When Plants Fight Back11.07.2017
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Under cover of subtlety and slow-motion, plants not only perceive the organisms around them, they respond—and in some cases, prepare forbattle.
Bat Odds
10.31.2017
Spotlight
- We’ve feared and maligned them for centuries, but it’s the bats that really have something tobe afraid of.
Hide and Glow Seek
10.24.2017
Spotlight
- The secret to this squid’s disguise lies in its relationship with a smaller, brighterspecies.
Are You My
Allomother?
10.19.2017
Spotlight - A
newborn elephant's aunts, sisters, and cousins all lend a helping trunk to support the newest member of their clan.The
Anomalies: The Acorn Woodpecker10.10.2017
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These highly social birds defy the typical two-parent family structure, proving that cooperation can make good evolutionary sense.Fire on the
Reef 10.10.2017
Spotlight
- Normally invisible to humans, fluorescent light shows like the one this fireworm puts on are helping medical researchers fight disease.Tongue-tied
10.03.2017
Spotlight
- These clownfish host some uninvited, and undesirable, guests on the tips of their tongues.Last Grasp
09.26.2017
Spotlight
- To catch and swallow their prey, these eels use both an obvious set of tools and an even more remarkable secret weapon.Framed Frog
09.19.2017
Spotlight
- Portrait-worthy for more than just its beauty, this toxic frog may revolutionize our approachto pain management.
Turning Turtle
09.13.2017
Spotlight
- Even sea turtles’ taste buds change with age.Fight or Forage
08.29.2017
Spotlight
- At the bottom of the Earth, this dauntless bird finds calories wherever it can.Please Pass the
Vole 08.23.2017
Spotlight
- Doting falcon
fathers deliver meals to their young even after they’ve left thenest.
Salts of the Earth
08.15.2017
Spotlight
- Life can be
fleeting in one of the world’s hottest and most tectonically activeenvironments.
A Colorful Cleanup
08.08.2017
Spotlight
- Living off the
energy they extract from heavy metals, these bacteria create spectacular natural displays—and leave clean drinking water in theirwake.
Lens
of Time: Secrets of Schooling08.08.2017
Video
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Shimmering schools of fish have dazzled scientists for centuries with their synchronized maneuvers. Now, high-speed video is revealing how—and why—they do it.Making
Tracks 08.01.2017
Spotlight
- For some snakes, taking the path of least resistance requires getting off the ground.Bipes
Aren’t Coming for You07.26.2017
Video
- A
mysterious worm lizard squirms its way out of the Baja sand and straight into our hearts.Golden Eye
07.18.2017
Spotlight
- This rufous-eyed brook frog has a sparkle in its eye, thanks to a third eyelid strewn with flecksof gold.
Swimming with
Shark Pups
07.11.2017
Spotlight - A
young shark wriggles its way into the world, and one lucky—and dedicated—photographer is there to capture the moment.A Moth’s-Eye View
06.27.2017
Spotlight
- Even the commonest of creatures can reveal stunning beauty (and impressive ingenuity) uponcloser inspection.
Invisible Nature: Return of the Wood Frog06.27.2017
Video
- A common frog species takes an unusual approach to winter—one that would kill most other vertebrates.Survival of the
Smallest
06.13.2017
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When El Niño hits the Galápagos Islands, marine iguanas struggle to find enough food—then they undergo a remarkable transformation.Catch of the Day
06.07.2017
Spotlight
- Octopus is on the
menu for this Cape fur seal—and the powerful predator has developed a surprisingly effective method for preparing its meal.World Traveler
05.31.2017
Spotlight
- This tiny songbird treks cross-hemisphere over deserts, oceans, and mountain ranges in one of the animal kingdom’s most impressive migrations. Forgotten but not Gone: The Pacific Fisher05.23.2017
Video
- Facing new threats—including toxins from illegal marijuana grows—the fate of this little-known mammal hangs in the balance.Troubled Waters
05.16.2017
Spotlight
- The world’s largest aquatic frog may soon vanish from its namesake home high in the Andes.Dawn Display
05.09.2017
Spotlight
- An intrepid photographer climbs high into the rainforest canopy to capture one of the world's most dazzling courtship rituals.Greatest Shoal
on Earth
05.02.2017
Spotlight - One
of the planet’s most massive migrations, the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run triggers a dazzling feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa.The Great Divide
04.25.2017
Spotlight
- A fateful crossing of the Congo River by ancestral apes led to the rise of the modernbonobo.
Can
Mushrooms Save the Honey Bee?04.25.2017
Video
- A
blood-sucking mite is wreaking havoc on honey bees—but scientists have discovered a surprising new way to fight back.Tear Hunter
04.11.2017
Spotlight
- In one of nature’s more surprising interactions, a butterfly hunts crocodilian tears in search of life-sustaining salts.Lion Guardians
04.11.2017
Photo Essay
- With human-wildlife conflicts on the rise across East Africa, Kenya’s iconic predators find some unlikely allies.The Ice Frog Cometh
04.04.2017
Spotlight
- Living at the
extreme edge of its range, an alpine frog begins its breeding season with a march across a rather forbidding landscape. Invisible Nature: Star of the Dunes04.04.2017
Video
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Coastal dunes set the stage for a surprisingly valuable partnership between a fungus and a tree.High Fliers
03.28.2017
Spotlight
- Lancing their granite backdrop with a streak of pink, Chilean flamingos soar over Torres del Paine National Park.Backcountry Drug
War 03.28.2017
Article
- In the Golden
State, dangerous drug cartels are growing pot on public lands—putting wildlife, water supplies, and outdoor enthusiasts atgrave risk.
Graceful
Giant 03.21.2017
Spotlight
- Their record-setting heft doesn't stop blue whales from being surprisingly sinuousswimmers.
Venomous Weaponry
03.21.2017
Photo Essay
- Nature’s arsenal contains thousands of venomous creatures and a diverse array of armaments that are as brilliant, varied, and surprising as the creatures that wield them.How to
Feed Africa Sustainably03.14.2017
Opinion
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Renowned sustainability expert shares ideas for addressing food shortages in Africa without compromising ecological health. Ancient Crops Find New Life03.07.2017
Article
- Feeding
the world sustainably—and nutritiously—may require crops that most people have never even heard of.The Lungs of
the Planet
02.28.2017
Immersive - The
Amazon rainforest faces myriad threats. But this iconic ecosystem—one of Earth's most important natural resources—may be more resilient than scientists ever expected.From Leaf to
Landscape
02.28.2017
Infographic - A
tropical rainforest’s ability to take a deep breath depends in large part on a somewhat surprising factor—the age of its leaves.Catching
the Rainforest’s Breath02.28.2017
Video
- Armed
with a suite of high-tech tools, scientists are measuring the flow of gases into and out of the Amazon rainforest to understand how this iconic ecosystem responds to seasonal and climatic shifts. Dancing for Their Lives02.21.2017
Spotlight
- To cultivate
long-lasting pair bonds, red-crowned cranes perform an intricate—and stunningly graceful—pas de deux. Invisible Nature: The Glowing Squid02.21.2017
Video
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Instead of hiding in the dark, the Hawaiian bobtail squid cruises through moonlit waters—and hides its own shadow. Lens of Time: Building a Butterfly Wing02.15.2017
Video
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Scientists open a window—literally—into a process that normally remains hidden deep inside a butterfly’s chrysalis.The War for Science
02.14.2017
Opinion
- It’s more than a skirmish over funding, censorship, and “alternative facts.” It’s a battle for basic decency, the people we love, and the future of ourplanet.
Guardian of
the Cotton-top
02.07.2017
Article
- The
landscape architect who became the unlikely steward of Colombia’s critically endangered one-pound monkeyDarwin’s Fox
02.07.2017
Spotlight
- His finches may be more famous, but this small fox also helped Darwin develop his revolutionary theory of evolution. The Catch with Unreported Fish Catches01.31.2017
Opinion
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Millions of tons of fish caught each year go unreported, and that impacts our ability to manage fisheries sustainably—but not in the way you might expect.Savanna Socialites
01.31.2017
Spotlight
- In spotted hyena
society, it's not the strength of the bite, but a strong network of allies that matters most.Star Attraction
01.24.2017
Spotlight
- Even a night sky of pirouetting stars can’t upstage the otherworldly beauty of a red-gilled nudibranch.For
the Love of Fish Lips01.18.2017
Spotlight
- In a
truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale, a fish’s lips have become both its most prized asset and its greatest liability.Maggot Revolution
01.18.2017 Article
- Agricultural
entrepreneurs want to solve the planet’s livestock-feed crisis by farming insect larvae. Will their scheme fly?Ahead of the Curve
01.10.2017
Spotlight
- A dolphin frolics
unperturbed in the bow wave of one of the open ocean’s clumsier and less-efficient seafarers.The
Anomalies: The Dewlap01.03.2017
Video
- An apparent
inconsistency leads scientists to a new discovery about the role the environment plays in animal communication.Bird’s-eye View
12.27.2016 Spotlight- What began as the
seasonal arrival of just a few dozen cranes has become one of India’s most renowned wildlife spectacles. Invisible Nature: Invasion of the Caterpillars12.27.2016
Video
- Gypsy moths have been gaining ground in North American forests for 150 years. Can a caterpillar-melting virus keep them in check?Moonlight Gliders
12.13.2016 Photo Essay- Wintertime in a
remote Montana forest heralds the arrival of mating season for the flying squirrel—and one of nature's most spectacular air shows. Lens of Time: Velvet Worms—Secret of the Slime12.13.2016
Video
- Physics and biology meet to create one of the world's strangest weapons: the slime cannon.Up in Arms
12.06.2016
Spotlight
- A pair of male stag beetles bring their oversized mandibles to bear in the age-old fight to find amate.
The Return of Jaws
11.29.2016
Spotlight
- A brave fisherman
drags a mighty fish-out-of-water back to the relative safety of thesea.
The Color
of Drought
11.22.2016 Video
- A record-setting
dry spell is transforming California’s forests—and in this case, colorful foliage is not a good thing.High Stakes Fox
Trot 11.15.2016
Spotlight
- While scouring
the frozen tundra, an arctic fox scores a goose egg—and secures a critical meal for its pups.Blood, White, and
Blue 11.08.2016
Spotlight
- Weary,
bloodstained, and ultimately victorious, one bird symbolizes the plight, fight, and recovery of our nation’s most iconic species.Sink or Swim
10.18.2016
Spotlight
- When its partially eaten prey starts to lose buoyancy, a young green sea turtle struggles to hold on to its lunch.Lens
of Time: How Hummingbirds Hover10.18.2016
Video
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Armed with the latest technology, scientists are beginning to unlock the secrets of one of nature’s most acrobatic flyers.Head in the Clouds
10.11.2016
Spotlight
- By feasting on
tropical fruits—and later dispersing the seeds—this canopy-dwelling bird helps to ensure the survival of its cloud foresthome.
Spikes and Malice
10.04.2016
Spotlight
- For the armored bush cricket, survival in the Namib Desert requires a diverse and surprising arsenal of defenses.Agave Whisperers
09.27.2016
Spotlight
- As they follow—and mentally map—flowering agaves from Arizona to Mexico, lesser long-nosed bats pollinate the plants that bring the world tequila.Digging Down Under
09.20.2016
Spotlight
- For this marsupial mole, surfacing to snack on a centipede is a rare respite from tunneling through the dark, sandy underground. Lens of Time: Spider Seduction09.13.2016
Video
- For
these jumping spiders, stayin' alive requires all the right dance moves—and the perfect soundtrack, too.Predator in
Training 09.06.2016Spotlight
- Feathered foes
practice one of nature’s most routine but perilous interactions.The Emperor’s
Throne 08.30.2016
Spotlight
- Perched atop the
elegant back of a Spanish dancer nudibranch, this tiny shrimp enjoys one of the safest seats in the sea.Hiding in Plain
Sight 08.23.2016
Spotlight
- In one of the
world’s harshest environments, and pressured by human encroachment, blending in is the snow leopard’s best option.The
Zika Challenge
08.17.2016 Opinion
- As we look for ways to prevent the world’s latest mosquito-borne disease, our focus on the mosquitoes themselves might be obscuring a more sustainablesolution.
A Life Aloft
08.09.2016
Spotlight
- Orangutans weather the storm against an onslaught of threats to their canopy home.Lens of
Time: Bat Ballet
08.02.2016 Video
- Hundreds of
thousands of bats emerge from a hole in the ground, and scientists with high-speed video cameras are there to make sense of the overwhelming spectacle.Shark Haven
08.02.2016
Spotlight
- A lemon shark cruises through the submerged branches of a mangrove forest, oblivious to the many threats this critical habitat faces.Holey Mola
07.26.2016
Spotlight
- A sea lion’s desperate foray into unusual prey reflects recent dramatic shifts in the marine ecosystem off California’s coast.Foraging by
Starlight
07.12.2016
Spotlight - It's
no accident that the opportunistic wild boar has become one of the most widely distributed mammals on the planet. Invisible Nature: Life in the Clouds07.05.2016
Video
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Scientists are looking skyward to explore one of biology’s last frontiers, and discovering a rich diversity of microbial life highabove our heads.
Arid Apparition
07.05.2016
Spotlight
- Once driven to near extinction by trophy hunting, the black rhino’s slow recovery is now encountering a new threat.The Birds and
the Bombs
06.28.2016
Article - The
fate of the Southeast's longleaf pine forests, and the endangered woodpeckers that depend on them, may rest in the hands of the U.S.military.
Red Velvet
06.28.2016
Spotlight
- While shedding velvet is a common annual occurrence among bull moose, photographers aren't often on hand to document the graphic details.Frog Leg Feast
06.21.2016
Spotlight
- With native fish
populations in decline, resourceful European otters have turned their attention to frogs and toads, a food source that presents its ownchallenges.
Lens of Time: Corals in Motion06.18.2016
Video
- Corals
occupy their own time dimension, but if given enough time, they reveal a surprising array of behaviors that give them an edge deep below theocean's surface.
It’s Got Guts
06.14.2016
Spotlight
- An elaborate headdress and a frilly external stomach is apparently just what this deep-sea creature needs to survive its precarious youth.Lens of
Time: Slime Lapse
06.07.2016
Video
- What these
single-celled, gelatinous blobs lack in brain power, they make up for with surprisingly complex decision-making.Feral Spirits
06.07.2016
Spotlight
- These beautiful
invasives most likely escaped from pet owners, but now they’re firmly established across the English countryside. Invisible Nature: Code of the Treehopper05.31.2016
Video
- Hiding in plain sight and deceptively still, treehoppers have evolved an ingenious way to communicate—and they're making a racket.Wyoming’s
Bird of Paradise
05.31.2016
Spotlight
- As if in
defiance to the many threats they face, sage-grouse perform one the West's most impressive mating rituals. Mealtime Swim 05.24.2016Spotlight
- Back from the brink, Eurasian beavers are once again an integral part of the river ecosystem in France's Loire Valley.Ducking and Diving
05.17.2016
Spotlight
- An eider duck seeks shelter and sustenance in the the icy waters along the centralNorwegian coast.
Taking
Pangolin off the Menu05.10.2016
Photo Essay
- Without
the tireless efforts of local conservation heroes, one of the most heavily trafficked animals on the planet might just go extinct—before you even know it exists.Rhino Relocation
05.10.2016
Spotlight
- To protect rhinos
from poachers, conservation workers have taken to the air to move these massive animals quickly and efficiently to safer ground.The
Lobster and its Amazing Noses05.03.2016
Video
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Enter the world of the lobster and witness the invisible signals that guide these creatures through life on the ocean floor.Night of the Caiman
05.03.2016 Spotlight - Once threatened by over-hunting, yacare caimans now number in the millions across Brazil’s Pantanal region.Nature’s
Lumberjacks
04.26.2016 Spotlight- Tree-felling is
dangerous business, so naturally a mother shows her young kit how it'sdone.
Skeleton Tree
04.26.2016
Spotlight
- Gray foxes climb into the trees to grab a few feet of vertical advantage.Ice Seal
04.26.2016
Spotlight
- Meet Lake Baikal’s most famous resident, the world’s only freshwater-specific seal.Sea Wolves
04.26.2016
Spotlight
- A pack of wolves along Canada’s Pacific Coast have become seafood specialists. Lens of Time: Bumper Bees04.26.2016
Video
- See how
scientists use high-speed videography to investigate—and learn from—the clumsy flight of the bumblebee.ABOUT
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