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Palouse Falls in eastern Washington.
volcanoes

Volcanic Eruptions That Shaped Oregon May Have Had a Chilling Effect

A massive amount of sulfur gas probably impacted climate around the world.
Kelsey Kennedy October 11, 2017
Stomach cells are just one of about 170 different types found in the human body.
science

Scientists Have Found Some of the Genes That Make Us So Complex

The root difference between us and worms.
Kelsey Kennedy October 11, 2017
A marsh hopper, infected by a parasite.
science

There Are Parasites That Turn Marsh-Dwelling Shrimp Into Orange Zombies

And nitrogen pollution can make the infections even more common.
Kelsey Kennedy October 10, 2017
Specimens from 1904 and 1966 look almost like different species of songbird.
science

What Sooty Feathers Tell Us About Air Pollution Over Time

Many of America's birds are far cleaner now than they were at the turn of the century.
Natasha Frost October 10, 2017
The brown streaks in the water, near the coastal city of Gladstone, Australia, are a bloom of <em>Trichodesmium</em> cyanobateria.
science

A Sea Scum Bloom Off Australia Can Be Seen From Space

The massive strands of microbes are actually a vital part of the global nitrogen cycle.
Kelsey Kennedy October 9, 2017
Dungeness crabs are popular among commercial and recreational fishers in Oregon. About 8.3 million pounds were harvested in 2014–15.
science

The Ocean's Low-Oxygen Dead Zones Are Getting Worse, Just Like Wildfires

So scientists are starting to track them that way.
Kelsey Kennedy October 6, 2017
Ball's Pyramid.
science

Scientists Want to Make Sure They're Breeding the Right Giant Stick Insects

DNA says that even though they look different, the bugs from two different islands are one and the same.
Kelsey Kennedy October 6, 2017
Six-year-old Leonard Schuster's foot in 1896. One suspects he struggled to keep still.
31 days of halloween

The Existential Horror Created by the First X-Ray Images

"I have seen my death!"
Kelsey Kennedy October 5, 2017
The only known specimen of the Liberian Greenbul.
dinosaurs

The Birds and Beasts That May Have Never Actually Existed

Occasionally it's hard to know what should be its own species.
Natasha Frost October 5, 2017
The detailed image of the storm used by scientists, from the book <em>Seikai</em>.
science

Japanese Scientists Turn Literary Detectives to Study a 1770 Magnetic Storm

They think it might have been the largest ever seen.
Natasha Frost October 4, 2017
The common spreadwing, one of the dragonflies included in the study.
science

Scientists Have Dug Through Dragonfly Droppings to Figure Out What They Eat

Wait, no one knew exactly what dragonflies eat?
Kelsey Kennedy October 3, 2017
The small, bright streak on the lower left was part of the Phoenicid meteor shower in December 2014.
science

The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Comet

The key to solving the puzzle was meteor showers.
Kelsey Kennedy October 2, 2017
A caravan of wild camels in the outback.
science

Giant, Introduced Herbivores Could Be Helping ‘Rewild’ the World

In the anthropocene, maybe feral camels, wild donkeys, and cocaine hippos aren't a bad thing.
Natasha Frost October 2, 2017
Alfred Russel Wallace's Grave.
Broadstone, England

Alfred Russel Wallace's Grave

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.
Just stay clear of their claws.
science

A Czech Brewery's Newest Employees Are 5 Crayfish

Changes in their behavior tell brewers whether their water is clean enough.
Kelsey Kennedy September 29, 2017
Is Mother Nature's ultimate storage device the future of digital music?
science

Which Two Songs Are the First to Be Encoded Into the Fabric of Life?

Advances in synthetic DNA are offering a way to preserve music forever, like a fly in amber.
Natasha Frost September 29, 2017
The notebooks were deteriorating fast.
abandoned

Forgotten Notebooks Chronicled the Lives of Congolese Trees for 20 Years

The data could help biologists understand how climate change is affecting forests.
Sarah Laskow September 28, 2017
Two thylacines at the Washington, D.C., National Zoo around 1904.
islands

Why Did the Tasmanian Tiger Disappear From Mainland Australia 3,000 Years Ago?

Climate may have played a bigger role than previously thought.
Kelsey Kennedy September 28, 2017