These are part of the under-the-snow (subnivean) network of tunnels and nests of our local meadow voles, an animal just as cute and fanciful as any elf or fairy. A meadow vole’s winter nest sits ...

On the East Coast, Mason Neck State Park in Virginia has large numbers of bald eagles that have been roosting for centuries, ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once turned piles of animal bones into nurseries. Instead of burrowing into soil ...