A shrub jay with a Timema stick insect in its beak. Utah State University biologist Zach Gompert and colleagues observe recurring evolutionary changes, over time in stick insects; publish findings in ...

Even though it is April now and spring is officially here, the windows on the back of our house look out over a field of snow that disappears into the woods and only begins to break up when it reaches ...

Walking up our entry steps after a hard morning of weeding yet another flower bed, a large, slow-moving insect caught my eye as it lumbered across an upper step at eye level. I gave it a closer look ...

WOODPECKERS have unique habits that place them into a category of avian critters who conduct their life and food gathering ...

Although “mollusk” comes from the Latin word for “soft,” squid beaks are so hard they can crack a fish’s spine with one bite. Yet somehow, a squid’s soft-tissue mouth can clench the beak without ...

Look at a bird’s beak to see what family the bird belongs to and the kind of food it eats. Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers ...