Following the previous topic of "sea otter," today's shiritori word is "bat" (koumori). I will write about it from the ...

You may know Thanksgiving is a day full of gratitude, turkeys and loved ones—but how many Thanksgiving facts do you really know? How much do you really know about Thanksgiving? Sure, you may have ...

Thanksgiving Day is one of the most beloved holidays of the year. The annual celebration is devoted to gathering with friends and family, eating too much food and watching football on the couch. What ...

Frogs are one of the oldest and most adaptable groups of vertebrates on Earth. They survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, freeze solid through New England winters and thaw alive, see ...

Balanced on a rock in the middle of a river, a black bear lowers her head to the water and … chomp! A wriggling salmon is no match for her strong jaws. She’s spent the summer eating berries and ...

The nervous system includes billions of neurons that communicate through electrical and chemical signals. It’s divided into the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral ...

Not far from the North Pole, the world is frozen for thousands of miles. Suddenly a snowy mound wiggles and reveals two dark eyes. The lump is transformed into the furry white body of a lone arctic ...

Ever fly close to a thunderstorm and worry about that flash of light outside your window? Well, rest assured that it’s just another day in the sky for pilots. According to the National Weather Service ...

The scale of global food waste is staggering – a hidden crisis that costs the world trillions of dollars annually while simultaneously driving the climate emergency. To celebrate World Food Day, Earth ...

Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. The largest bat in the world is the Flying Fox – join us we get to know this fruit-eating creature. Have ...

FLORA, Apayao, Philippines — The golden-crowned flying fox, one of the world’s largest bat species, has been documented in the forests here, adding a new record to the province’s growing biodiversity ...