Seeing a turtle slowly crossing a road can seem strange, especially when the nearest pond is nowhere in sight. Understanding why turtles cross roads late summer requires looking beyond the …
Why Firefly Season Is Already Fading (And What’s Happening Underground) On warm early-summer evenings, a backyard can seem filled with tiny blinking lights. A few weeks later, the display may …
A small tropical lizard dives beneath the surface of a stream. Instead of immediately swimming back toward air, it settles underwater. Then something unusual appears around its snout: a silvery …
The trash can that went untouched in June suddenly tips over twice in one week. Something empties the bird feeder after dark, grapes disappear from the garden, and the security …
Walk outside after dark and you may notice a squat, brown toad sitting beneath your porch light. Come back tomorrow night, and it may be there again. After several evenings, …
Table of Contents Why Skunks and Raccoons Dig Up Lawns in Late Summer (It’s Not Random) You wake up one August morning to find patches of your lawn peeled back …
Walk through a damp forest in southeastern Australia and you might hear kookaburras, parrots, whipbirds, and other native birds calling from somewhere ahead. Then a completely different noise may appear: …
Far below the sunlit surface of the Southern Ocean lives an animal with eyes unlike anything else known in nature. The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) possesses enormous, forward-facing eyes, and …
Table of Contents Cicada Killer Wasps: The Giant Lawn Wasp That Isn’t What It Looks Like Every summer, homeowners across much of the United States are startled by enormous wasps …
Table of Contents Nighthawk Migration: Why Dusk Skies Fill With Birds in Late August If you’ve ever looked up during a warm August evening and noticed dozens of long-winged birds …