The shimmering dunes of White Sands National Park harbor an extraordinary secret: fossilized human footprints that suggest human presence in the Americas as much as 10,000 years earlier than previously believed. How did these footprints in the sand manage to survive for so long? And ...
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So what is an animal anyway? In our inaugural episode of Crash Course Zoology, we’ll endeavor to answer just that because as it turns out, it’s complicated! But before we get there we’ll need to introduce you to zoology more broadly, tell you about taxonomy, ...
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Each week, we feature a worthy citizen science project or nature news segment from around the world. This week's featured project is a blast from the past called Castaway by the North Carolina Museum of Nature Sciences. Castaway describes its efforts as "salvag[ing] data from ...
A look back: Nature premiered in 1982 as the brainchild of George Page, then THIRTEEN's director of science programming. Its first episode, Flight of the Condor, featured stunning cinematography of the condor as it migrated across the Andes mountains in Latin America.
