“It really was like a shark murder mystery,” Brooke Anderson, a marine biologist for the state of North Carolina, tells ...

By Jason Bittel. Oct. 23, 2024. In January 2023, scientists attached tracking devices to eight grey plovers on the coast of the Wadden Sea off the Netherlands.

By Jason Bittel Published Nov. 29, 2024 Updated Dec. 5, 2024 Off Baja California in Mexico, a killer whale named after an Aztec emperor is leading his pod on routine takedowns of the largest fish ...

“Brood XIV is the same brood that was first recorded in 1634 by the pilgrims in the Plymouth colony,” explains Gene Kritsky, an entomologist at Mount St. Joseph University, to Jason Bittel at ...

Male bonobos are big, loud animals—and they can be aggressive. Yet, despite the males being larger and stronger than their female counterparts, bonobos live in female-dominated societies, a fact ...

Jason Bittel previously reported on federal efforts to manage illegal coral trafficking. Published Jan. 22, 2025 Updated Jan. 23, 2025; Corals come in a wide array of shapes, sizes and colors, and ...

Toe-tally mysterious. Hairs on the toes of Mexican free-tailed bats light up under ultraviolet light, but the reason is unknown, Jason Bittel reported in “Mexican free-tailed bats’ toes glow ...

By Jason Bittel. Jan. 17, 2025. You are in a desert and dying of thirst. All of a sudden, storm clouds appear overhead, and the sky starts to spit tiny drops of liquid.