If someone told you it rained fish once upon a time, would you believe them? You’d be forgiven if you said “no.” But get this ...

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From navigation to social behavior to personality, scientists are rewriting what it means to be a clever snake. Here’s what ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa's trumpeter swans have set a modern-day record with 158 nests in 2025, marking a 17 percent increase ...

The snake-tail mantis shows there’s more to these insects than just cannibalism. This male snake-tail mantis, Ameles serpentiscauda, has three simple eyes (ocelli) visible between its antennae, which ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

Zebra mussels were recently found at Des Moines Water Works. What to know about the invasive species and why the Iowa DNR isn ...

AMERICAN FALLS – Idaho Fish and Game captured and released 312 rainbow trout, 17 mountain whitefish, 13 smallmouth bass, 11 ...

In 2010, a famed ecologist, Robert May, asked a hypothetical question to the scientific community. If an alien spaceship landed on Earth, one of the first questions they would likely ask would be, how ...