I wiped my glasses and glanced nervously through the trees. Fresh bear prints were climbing from the creek toward the hillcrest. I fumbled through the back of my vest and found my bear spray. I pulled ...

Caterpillars, it seems, are not afraid to make big statements when designing their homes. Hundreds to thousands of the insect craftsmen covered a tree in Yorkshire, England, with so much of their ...

Do trees actually talk to each other? And if so, how do they do it? Just over 20 years ago, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that trees do communicate with each other, and it's through a fungal ...

Under The Oak Tree is a web novel that takes fans back to an age of swords and sorcery. Starting as a web novel, the series has garnered popularity thanks to not just its character work, but some of ...

A garden orb-weaver spider sits upon its hard-won throne. The art of the orb-style spider web has perplexed evolutionary biologists for a long time. Before DNA sequencing revolutionized the field, ...