Natural History
How to Find Morel Mushrooms: Foraging 101
BY RACHELLE SCHRUTE
Few things get foragers excited like morel...
Hunting for the Birthplace of the World’s Rarest Diamonds
It’s hard to overstate the rarity of the Hope...
Largest Snake of All Time Was Longer than a T-Rex — But ‘Gentle’
Imagine a snake longer than a shipping container —...
Old But Bold: World’s Most Ancient Wild Bird Still Looking For Love
Pretty much any idea reality TV producers come up...
Human Migration From Africa Lingered in Persia For 20,000 Years
Humans left Africa between 70,000 and 60,000 years ago,...
New Research Proves Gars are the King of ‘Living Fossils’
Some animals remain unchanged by evolution over millions of...
Found: World’s Oldest Forest, Which Changed Life Forever
If you were hiking through the world’s oldest forest,...
Exploration Mysteries: Lakes of the Badain Jaran Desert
A peculiar satellite image recently made the rounds on...
Blue Whale Back on Top as Heaviest Animal Ever
Last year, the Blue Planet’s heaviest ever animal lost...
Amateurs Paleontologists Strike Jackpot: 400 Rare Ordovician Fossils
The Ordovician world was a watery one in which...
Monkey Business: Apes Joke All the Time, Apparently
Playing a joke on your buddy, sibling, or parent...
Remarkably Adaptive Bird Loses Ability to Fly, Then Evolves Wings Again, Then Becomes Flightless a 2nd Time
At some point hundreds of thousands of years ago,...
Strange Dr. Seuss-Like Tree Discovered in Canadian Quarry
Weird, bushy, top-heavy tree fossils found in a Canadian...
New Dinosaur Marks Second ‘Chicken from Hell’
When Kyle Atkins-Weltman bought some fossils online for one...
Australian Atlantis Could Have Hosted Half a Million Migrants
For generations, Australian scientists thought their country’s ancient coasts...
‘Giganto,’ Largest Primate Ever, Died From Climate Change
What could take down a prehistoric ape the size...
The Surprise Origin of Multiple Sclerosis in Europe
A flight of studies one genetic researcher called a...
Natural Wonders: The World’s Oldest Moss
Eons ago, Earth experienced a succession of chaotic events:...
Iron Oxide in Ancient Bricks Reveal Strange History of Earth’s Electromagnetic Field
The Earth's magnetic field surged mysteriously in Mesopotamia (modern-day...
Natural Wonders: When Trees Fuse and Flourish as One
Ecologist Suzanne Simard famously says that trees are "social...
Natural Wonders: China’s Egg-Laying Cliff
For centuries, the Sui people of China’s Guizhou province...
