Brian Handwerk Science Correspondent When the sun sets, darkness guides the ways many animals live and die. The night helps wary mice hide from some predators, but it also helps hunters like keen-eyed owls score their next meal. Many species mate under cover of darkness, like calling crickets that find one another in the night. […]
By Ben Goldfarb Photographs by Mette Lampcov The 28th question of the hardest exam I’d taken since college was a smudged footprint pressed lightly into damp sand. The track possessed four teardrop-shaped toes and a vaguely trapezoidal heel pad; one toe, third from the left, jutted above the others, like a human’s middle finger. I […]
By Alex Fox Correspondent Many penguin species huddle together in massive colonies, but pairs of yellow-eyed penguins go out of their way to be alone, nesting deep in New Zealand’s scrublands and forests out of sight of other penguins. When pairs reunite at the nest after one has been away fishing, they greet each other […]
Eilish and brother Finneas make their fourth appearance on the late night show in support of Hit Me Hard and Soft In her fourth musical guest appearance on Saturday Night LiveBillie Eilish performed a pair of tracks from her acclaimed third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Softwhich came out in May. Eilish, Rolling Stone‘s […]
Joe Spring Associate Editor, Science Well before ornithologist Lucas Berrigan embraced technology to find out where birds travel around the world, he started bird-watching around his home. At around 10 years old, anytime he heard a new call in Nova Scotia, he’d search out the bird. At 14, he went to a remote station on […]
Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Birds can be found on every continent—some living near water, others atop mountain ranges, and many nesting in forests and jungles. These often aerial animals, believed to be the modern-day cousins of prehistoric dinosaurs, continue to stand the test of time. Species of birds have […]
A wildfire burns in Quebec, Canada, in June of last year. Smoke from the fires drifted south to the United States. FREDERIC CHOUINARD / SOPFEU / Handout / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Early last summer, dull orange horizons replaced blue skies and hid city skylines in New York and Washington, D.C. Even the midday […]
Riley Black Science Correspondent The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades have passed since the scientific debut of the first non-avian dinosaur with feathers, Sinosauropteryx, and in that time experts have discovered dozens more. Bird-like raptors, tyrannosaurs, and even horned dinosaurs have been found with feathers and feather-like body […]
