Latest Stories in Natural Sciences - Page 16
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Western Scrub Jays Call Their Friends to "Funerals"
The call a jay makes upon finding a dead jay causes other jays to gather. Scientists report on their attempts to understand these "bird councils".
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Caption Contest! What are these two birds saying to each other?
This photo is begging for a caption -- and yours could win the contest!
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Sharks Learn New Skills From Other More Successful Sharks
For the first time in cartilagenous fish social learning has been demonstrated.
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Wildlife of Katmai National Park: Why Preserving Wild Spaces Is Important
The animals of Katmai National Park of Alasak illustrate why supporting our national parks system is so important to conservation.
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Destroying Coastal Habitats May Release 10 Times More Greenhouse Gas Emissions Than Thought
There's an under-abundance of data available on the carbon emissions from coastal ecosystem destruction, but we do know that by area they store more carbon than rainforests. New research tries to set some boundaries around how bad the situation made be.
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Friendly Seal Holding Hands with Diver (Video)
If you need to give your brain a break, check out this cute video.
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Nature Blows My Mind! The Mysterious Sailing Stones
Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, California has an unusual feature -- stones that slowly sail across the earth leaving long trails behind them.
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Genetically Modified Camel Milk Could Help Produce Pharmaceuticals
A ways off from commercial development, researchers in Dubai are attempting to make transgenic cloned camels, whose milk could help make cheaper drugs.
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World Forest Area Still on the Decline
Forests provide many important goods, such as timber and paper. They also supply essential services—for example, they filter water, control water runoff, protect soil, regulate climate, cycle and store nutrients.
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Nature Blows My Mind! Amazing Transparent Animals
Seriously, you guys, what is up with that!?
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Nature Blows My Mind! The Hypnotic Patterns of Sunflowers
Sunflowers are one of summer's staples but have you ever stopped to notice the mesmerizing patterns held within them?
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Runaway Tortoise Leads Authorities on Slow-Speed Pursuit
Somehow, the lumbering 155-pound tortoise had managed to breach the rehab center's gate, escape across a long field, and even cross a riverbed in a slow-motion bid for freedom.
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Behind NASA's Armageddon-Style Effort to Stop Earthbound Asteroids (Video)
Protecting the planet from asteroid collisions falls under the umbrella of "sustainability," no?
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Shade-Grown Coffee Isn't Just for the Birds
New study shows that agroforestry may have economic as well as environmental benefits.
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Student's Research Project Uncovers 8 New Species of Sharks
"They don’t look like the classic great whites you'll see on Shark Week," said the 27-year-old grad student. "I think they're more interesting."
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Stunning Dolphin Video Captured by Tuna Fishermen
A gorgeous video was taken "by accident" when a pod of dolphins showed up behind a fishing boat.
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Discovery & PS22 Chorus Get Behind National Forest Foundation’s ‘Treasured Landscapes’ Campaign
Help protect our forests!
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Extinction Rates Soar in Brazil's Fragmented Forests
Biologists call the level of species loss in the Atlantic Forest "staggering".
