Category: Life Science

Bee specimen Megachile lanata photographed against a dark background

Life Science Noteworthy

USGS Elevates Digital Collections

Rangers and biologist look for endangered fairy shrimp in a vernal pool

Earth Science Life Science

Vernal Pools: Ephemeral Ecologies

Dendrochernes cyrneus attached to the antenna of Rhyssa persuasoria from Austria

Hitchhiking Pseudoscorpions (Phoresy)

Dendrobates tinctorius morph in Brazil

Exploration Life Science

Enrico Bernard’s Dendrobates tinctorius “Tumucumaque” Poison Frog

Ground sloths and an American mastodon can be seen in this illustration of megafauna

Some Plants Are Still Making Fleshy Fruit to Attract Extinct Megafauna

Bright orange male and drab female guppies of the species Poecilia reticulata

Why Wild Male Guppies are Orange

Life Science Noteworthy

Chip Clark’s Iconic National Museum of Natural History Photos

Fallow deer (Dama dama) in the snow at Klaarfontein Guest Farm

How Terrestrial Animals Survive in Very Cold Climates

Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) specimen from River Tigris at Karrada stored in a glass container at the Natural History Museum in London

The Riverine Bull Sharks of Iran and Iraq | A Brief Modern History

The Complicated Relationship Between Ants and Whistling Thorn Acacia Trees