A great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) was spotted doing the breast stroke in Lake Michigan earlier this week. According to WGN6 in Chicago: [Photographer and birder] Steve Spitzer was at Loyola Park Beach in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood when he saw something in the lake. He ...

As the NATURE episode Invasion of the Killer Whales showed, climate change is beginning to have an impact on animals that live in the Arctic, one of the coldest regions on earth. Seasonal ice sheets, the main hunting grounds of polar bears, are vanishing. But ...

If you are a regular visitor to the NATURE website, you might have noticed more than a few changes around here. We’ve redesigned and reorganized the website from the ground up, with new features to help you find the content you’re looking for. Here are ...

The New York Times RETROREPORT, a video series that “looks back at the major stories that shaped the world”, recently covered colony collapse disorder (CCD)–a mysterious epidemic that appeared in 2006 and has been blamed for a third of honey bee colony losses in successive ...

Three-toed sloths (Bradypus Variegatus) do everything at glacial speeds–including reproduce. Females give birth once every 15 months and to one baby at a time. Combine that with the fact that sloths live high in the jungle canopy and you can imagine that witnessing a sloth ...

Sloths are fascinating creatures–from their Mona Lisa smiles to their lethargic lifestyle to their strange symbiotic relationship with moths. Which of the sloths in A Sloth Named Velcro was your favorite? Did you learn something new about sloths that you’d never even thought to ask? ...

Animal Misfits featured some truly strange animals; from the giant flightless parrot, the kakapo, to the long-fingered lemur, the aye-aye. Which creature was your favorite? Are there any that you’d never heard of before? Is there one you’d like to know more about? Let us ...

NATURE kicks off its 33rd season on October 15th, 2014 with Animal Misfits, a program about animals that are odd, bizarre and at first glance seem-ill equipped for survival. Other upcoming episodes include Big Thinkers of the Forest, A Sloth Named Velcro and The Animal ...