It's late in the day on a muggy spring afternoon in northern Belize. A couple dozen researchers enter the Lamanai Archaeological Reserve on foot. Their objective is to catch as many different kinds of ...

Arizona is home to 28 different species of bats. Bats are an important part of the ecosystem. They pollinate plants and eat mosquitoes. It is illegal to kill or harm bats in Arizona, but they can be ...

BRITTONS NECK — Fireflies flickered in near synchronicity against the dark canopy as two researchers worked below in a swampy clearing. Standing over a dented card table, they placed a tiny, ...

Animals do not uniformly hear the world. A forest at night, for instance, carries layers of sound that humans barely notice: insect vibration, shifting bark, distant movement underground, and echoes ...