The Mount Lyell shrew, a tiny mammal that lives high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was first described 100 years ago, but the elusive creature had never been photographed alive. So, in November 2024 ...

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February, we have longer daylight. Often, temperatures have started to moderate and we have had a snow cover for about 90 days. It has varied much in depth, but this white substrate has been a good ...

What researchers do know about them explains why they are so tricky to track down. Researchers slept in two-hour shifts to ensure they didn’t miss the shrew falling into the traps (Picture ...

How do predators use their vision to both navigate through the terrain while tracking prey running for its life? Pursuing ...

The challenge of pursuit By reconstructing what predatory mammals see when they chase prey researchers have discovered that saccades align the retina to world motion and not the actual thing they are ...

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...

As soon as the ice was strong enough, I was out on the nearby swamp. It was not only a good place to observe the cold season, but also an easy path to walk as I traveled between the woods and the ...

The Great Nicobar development project’s mitigation plan oversimplifies ecological restoration, reducing it to tree-planting ...

When sitting still, eye saccades are used to track targets of interest but how are saccades used when pursuing prey while simultaneously navigating through complex environments? To solve this question ...