Nocturnal basking and deep diving may not be enough to keep crocodiles cool in a warming world
Climate change is pushing crocodiles outside their comfort zone, and there may be a limit to how much their natural cooling ...
Orion Magazine4h
Love in a Time of Terror
It is more important now to be in love than to be in power. It is more important to bring E. O. Wilson’s biophilia into our ...
Dayton Daily News7h
Ignore the cold weather and get outside: It’s Cottontail rabbit season and fish runs in the local rivers start soon
Unlike Ruffed Grouse and Bobwhite quail, Ohio’s deer archery season now extends into February and just closed, as did the waterfowl seasons. However, Cottontail rabbit season is open and ends at ...
Antarctic midge survives extreme cold with unique dormancy strategies
Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...
What's it like to live away from it all on Prudence Island year-round? We found out.
If you’re baking a cake and discover you're out of lemons, “you’ll get, like, 12 lemons because everyone will come running with their lemons,” said Shari Weinberger, who began living on Prudence full ...
Science Daily16h
Cold temperatures promote spread of a bird pink eye pathogen at winter feeders
A recent study by two biological science researchers found that a pathogen for bird pink eye remained viable on bird feeders in winter months much longer than in summer months, without losing any of ...
KTOO20h
Forest Service warns Juneau residents to stay away from Mendenhall Glacier amid calving concerns
The U.S. Forest Service is warning Juneau residents to stay away from the face of the Mendenhall Glacier, where a large piece of ice may fall off at any moment. Paul Robbins Jr, a spokesperson for the ...