George Forster’s globe-trotting youth made him more tolerant of Indigenous peoples and customs than most of his peers, writes ...

Luke Kilpatrick, naturalist at Sanctuary Cruises, talks about the recent spotting of airborne Orcas as they hunt dolphins in ...

Suburban environs can be dull. Lawns and roads don't offer much biodiversity for curious boys. But Charles Bier, a recently retired senior director of conservation science for the Western Pennsylvania ...

"I knew I'd just witnessed a memory that would stay with me forever." ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Charles Darwin had been mulling over his ...

John J. Audubon usually tops the list of famous naturalist, but he wasn't the first to document Louisiana's natural landscape ...