Devin Reese

How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate: It's become uniquely suited to handle b…

The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws: The science behind nature's differ…

How Hannibal's War Elephants Helped to Determine His Route Through the Alps: When you go into battle with nea…

How Animals Communicate Across Species: From honeyguides to cleaner fish, cross-species cooperation abounds

In Grand Canyon National Park, a dog has been trained to make a difference. Alongside his ranger, Blue keeps …

This Blind Cave-Dwelling Fish May Be the Key to Understanding Brain Evolution: Its life in the darkness could…

Here's How Mosquitoes Survive the Deadly Viruses They Transmit: Tamped-down viral action keeps the mosquito v…

Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs?: Five million years of evolutionary history were hid…

Inside the Brain of a 319-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish: It paves the way for understanding how ray-finned fis…

The largest, most complex organisms share a commonality with the smallest, simplest organisms - reproduction.…

Four New Chameleon Species Found in Tropical "Sky Islands": Two of which are named after pioneering female sc…

How Fruit Flies Manage Their Exceptionally Long Sperm: If human sperm were a foot long, fruit fly sperm would…

Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants: In fact, they're some of the same plants used pharmacologically by loca…

How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison: They're evolving faster than we can stop them

These Ancient Baby Predators Challenge Our Understanding of Evolution: The first animals onto terra firma wer…

Discover how Merlin Bird ID uses AI to identify birds by sight and sound, and why millions of nature lovers r…

What Makes Sloths So Slow?: The two-toed sloth genome provides some definitive answers

Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth: Whale remains have accumulated in this Indian Ocean site for 5 m…

How These Supergiant Sea Creatures Survive More Than 5 Years Without Eating: It takes a large stomach and a s…

Hawaii's False Killer Whales Are Wasting Away: Nutritional stress depresses an already threatened population

Koalas Were in Trouble Before Humans Arrived in Australia: DNA evidence points to environmental upheaval as a…

Dogs Could Be Humanity's Best Friend in the Fight Against This Invasive Species: A new trick for Fido-finding…

Check Out the Newest Fluorescent Amphibian: Another terrestrial organisms glows with UV light

This Towering Fir Is the Tallest Tree in East Asia: The Indigenous people of Taiwan call it "the tree that hi…