Under the cover of night, a nesting sea turtle meets one of nature’s most formidable hunters. In the mangroves of Costa Rica, a jaguar’s powerful bite turns a single meal into a feast that sustains an ...

Sweet jumping gerbils. Tonight is the one night a year that the Queen of the Night cactus blooms but the flower only lasts for a few hours. Daisy has always wanted to go to the desert to see it. But ...

Common snapping turtle hatchling. Because of predation, eggs, hatchlings, and young snapping turtles have an abysmally low survival rate, until age four or so when they get large enough that few ...

May 19—Spring unfolds in many ways in May. Nature watchers never run out of things to observe. Woods walks are such a delight now as we see the various colors of spring wildflowers on the forest floor ...

This is one of my annual public service nature announcements: Be on the lookout for turtles in the road as you drive around. They’ve begun moving about after their long winter nap. This is the time of ...