I began tagging along with my dad and his friend Wayne Rehrig while they hunted small game when I was about 7 or 8 years old.

Like most mammals, humans are diphyodont: We have two sets of teeth – baby teeth and adult teeth. The technical term for our ...

Edmontosaurus annectens, a large herbivore duck-billed dinosaur that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous period, was ...

Found in swampy areas of North America, the star-nosed mole's titular appendage consists of 22 probes with 25,000 sensory ...

For the first time, scientists have calculated a detailed “energetic budget” for Hawaiʻi’s short-finned pilot whales, ...

As much as I applaud scientific research that reveals nature’s secrets, I feel a sense of satisfaction when some natural ...

No narrow trails? No problem. Just crouch under a rock, hold your breath, and pretend Nebraska is home to slot canyons.

Bavarian Premier Markus Söder has proposed building small nuclear "mini reactors." Meanwhile, a World War II bomb has been ...

Indiana has a secret, and it’s a big one – 24,515 acres big, to be exact. Morgan-Monroe State Forest sits quietly between Bloomington and Martinsville, offering a woodland paradise that somehow ...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen and deer hunters everywhere it’s time for your favorite deer season topic, and that is the rut. I was contemplating skipping a column on this wildly ...

There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora’s whale-surfing joyride.

“That pup is really relying on everything it learns from the mother to be able to survive in the ocean,” Zink said, adding ...