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  • Interpreting Animal Dreams

    While it may be impossible to wake up a rat, hand it a notebook, and have it write a bleary-eyed account of its dreams, scientists can instead try to go to the source. Matthew...

  • Getting Sleep in the Wild

    New advances in brain imaging over the years has allowed researchers to study the sleeping brains of animals. But while scientists have learned much about animal sleep patterns,...

  • Why Study Birds?

    All animals sleep in some form, what makes birds special? Why are scientists like Niels Rattenborg particularly interested in avian sleep patterns? Turns out, birds have evolved...

  • The Safety of Sitting Ducks

    Curious observers have noticed for centuries that ducks sometime sleep with one eye open, but had never really looked into why or how. Neils Rattenborg, a neurophysiologist at the...

  • The Birds and the Bees across Species

    During his research into pleasure centers in the brain, neuroscientist Jim Pfaus noticed that the same areas of the brain activate with clitoral stimulation—regardless of...

  • Are Flowers Smelling You Back?

    Animals utilize their sense of smell to explore their surroundings. But what about plants? When you smell a flower, is it smelling you back? Is it trying to figure out if your...

  • Cool Job: Ecological Adventurer

    Ecologist and explorer Mark Moffett has trekked across the globe to find his stories and capture them on film. Just like the creatures he photographs, Mark can be found crawling...

  • The Ant Cemetery

    After checking the pulse or the brain activity, the doctor officially pronounces a person dead; and then that person is buried. But what do ants do with their dead comrades? How...

  • Order out of Chaos: Ant Communication

    An ant colony is a frenzy of activity. Somehow, in the midst of what appears to be a sea of chaos, the ants manage to work together to create an orderly home. Does this...

  • What Biodiversity Really Means

    At the present rate of extinction, some biologists predict that we could lose half of the species on the planet by 2100. Every individual’s very existence, every single day, is...

  • Spinning Spider Yarns

    Mark Moffet is an ecologist and wildlife photographer by trade, but he is also naturally gifted in spinning yarns. Here, Moffet shares exceptional stories about...

  • Adventures inside an Acorn

    Mark Moffett is an ecologist and photographer, but he sees his work primarily as the search for stories. There are stories to be found and adventures to be had everywhere around...

  • Fighting Ant Foes

    Ants may seem, at first look, to be cooperative—or even harmonious—with their fellow ants.  However, here the legendary evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson shares footage of...

  • Let’s Talk about Frogs

    There are roughly 1.75 million identified frog species in the world, and biologists estimate that there are between 5 and 50 million species that are still completely unknown to...

  • Understanding Monkey Talk

    We humans have the incredible ability to use sounds to communicate, via language. Of course, many other animals makes sounds, but do these sounds have meaning? Can animals...

  • What Bonobos Can Teach Us

    Bonobos share 98.7% of our DNA. Physically, they resemble chimpanzees. But something remarkable sets them apart from their primate cousins, making them an altogether different...

  • Sharing Is Caring?

    “Share your toys and your treats!” Sharing is just about the first priority on the curriculum of life and school. But is that why we do it, because we’re told to? Or are there...

  • Breed More Bacteria?

    After the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, a type of hydrocarbon-loving bacteria consumed a large proportion of the extra oil. They had already been there in...

  • Gathering the Ocean

    In the past half-century, an alarming number of the world’s fish populations has collapsed: tuna, swordfish, snapper, grouper, cod, halibut, wild salmon, sea bass, and orange...

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