A juvenile female of the mantid species Choeradodis rhomboidea was collected as part of an effort to catalog insects in the Amazon.Credit: Bernardo Ferraz/BioInsecta The Amazon’s lush rainforest harbours a hidden world of tiny creatures, nearly all of them unknown to science. But now hundreds of scientists in Brazil are collaborating on a quest to
Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites Dino Martins Knopf (2026) Togetherness: How Symbiosis Can Change the Way We Understand Our World, Ourselves and Our Future Rowan Hooper Fern (2026) Humans often fancy that we are independent creatures, living sealed off from other species. Yet, that false sense of
The art and science of Ernst Haeckel Julia Voss and Rainer Willmann Taschen (2026) To immerse yourself in the world of naturalist Ernst Haeckel is to fall into a kaleidoscope of vibrant sea slugs, coiled octopuses, looping larvae and bulbous bodies. These tantalizing creatures float and writhe before your eyes, mesmerizing with their curious contortion.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, Rhode Island — On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of American oystercatcher chicks. But just as they close in to capture them, one of the football-sized birds, with bright orange beaks and long legs, runs toward a
CHICAGO — Two bald eagles hatchlings have been spotted in a nest in a Chicago park in what city officials believe is the raptors’ first successful wild breeding in the Windy City in more than a century. Chicago Park District officials announced last week that bird-watchers observed nesting activity starting in February in Park 597
