Snakes are some of the best-known reptiles, with more than 4,000 species across the world. When we think of snakes, we ...

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Yet although mammals like humans can’t do this, the evolutionary wiring for complete limb regeneration is seemingly conserved ...

It’s been a big year for the abundance movement, but what has it really achieved? Ezra Klein talks with his “Abundance” ...

Martha Leb Molnar is a Vermont-based author who writes often about the natural world. Her most recent book is “Playing God in ...

Step back in time ten years or so and fly fishing for carp was exploding. It became so popular that it served as fodder for ...

Parkinson’s disease is a long-term condition that affects the brain and mainly changes how people move. Around 8 million ...

Antarctic scale worms are bizarre deep-sea predators equipped with extendable jaws that can rapidly emerge to seize prey in the darkness. The transcript highlights how these worms use eversible ...

A tiny switch in DNA allows neurons to change their function depending on the environment and alter behavior in worms.

I love watching robins. They hop across the grass then pause and tilt their heads to one side. Soon – jab! –they pull a wiggly worm from the soil. I asked my friend Heather Watts what those robins are ...

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Spring rains are pulling something unsettling to the surface in Texas gardens. Hammerhead worms, a toxic and invasive flatworm species, are beginning to pop up across the state after recent wet ...