Animals

Here’s what a chef, a vet and two anthropologists have to say about eating periodical cicadas

There has never been a better time to be or become a birder

Social context shapes how fiddler crabs communicate by vibrating the ground underneath their burrows

A novel about the tensions between nature and modernity, animal social networks, and more books out now

A rice-grain-size fish screams louder than a jackhammer—and we have a lot to learn from its minuscule brain

Fossil and living birds reveal the dazzling biology of feathers

Deadly bites could surge as venomous snakes migrate into unprepared countries as the climate changes

However much outdoor space you have, here’s how to use it for conservation

As hard as it is to study these denizens of the deep, researchers have found some intriguing evidence to support the idea that “sperm whale culture” exists.

In a new nature documentary about matriarchal species, the males are mostly absent

Periodical cicadas have a clever hack to help them figure out when to emerge after more than a decade underground

Rat remains from shipwrecks and dig sites show how two rodent species duked it out in eastern North America