Articles by

Jake Buehler

Glowing octocorals have been around for at least 540 million years

More than half a billion years ago, the deep, dark ocean was aglow with the eerie light...

Chickadees use memory ‘bar codes’ to find their hidden food stashes

Much like squirrels, black-capped chickadees hide their food, keeping track of many thousands of little treasures wedged...

An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans

As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon. The finding, based...

Male dragonflies’ wax coats might protect them against a warming climate

Some male dragonflies have a waxy coat that keeps them cool while pursuing mates and may also...

This is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed its babies ‘milk’

In the middle of the night in a humid coastal rainforest, a litter of pink, hairless babies...

Giant tortoise migration in the Galápagos may be stymied by invasive trees

After trudging upslope for weeks, a giant tortoise slows its hundreds of cumbersome kilograms to a stop....

Ancient trees’ gnarled, twisted shapes provide irreplaceable habitats

Earth’s oldest, knotted and scarred pine trees are a boon for forest life.  These old mountain pines...

The first known scorpion to live with ants carries mini hitchhikers

In the middle of an April night in Israel’s Jordan Valley, Yoram Zvik sweeps a UV light...