Nature and Science

A fish that shoots, and hits, on purpose People talk about animals using tools, but it’s still jarring to watch a fish knock an insect out of a tree with.

You’ve probably seen it on a drive where the road snakes uphill.

Not one place, but a repeating pattern People notice the same strange neatness in very different landscapes.

People usually imagine sharks hunting with smell or sight. But a hammerhead can still “find” a fish that’s buried in sand and not moving much.

If you watch a nectar-feeding bat at a flower, it doesn’t sip the way most people imagine. It doesn’t form a neat straw with its tongue.

At low tide, a mussel bed can look like a pile of loose shells that should slide off the rock.

If you’ve driven through Colorado’s lodgepole pine country, you’ve probably seen it: whole hillsides of reddish-brown trees mixed into what looks like a.

Those colors aren’t just “pretty lights” Auroras don’t belong to one single place or event.

Seeing it happen up close At a public aquarium, it’s normal to see a fish flare its jaws and catch a flash of light off a tooth.

Why a burrowing animal matters to a river It’s a quiet contradiction on the Great Plains.