My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

There is more Reading Rainbow in our future. Sony Pictures Television has ordered an additional 24 episodes of the beloved literacy program with Mychal Threets, (aka Mychal the Librarian), set to ...

In 1935, native beetles were wreaking havoc on Australia’s sugar cane crops in Queensland. The beetle larvae lived in the soil and chewed on sugarcane roots, stunting growth or killing the plants.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. With a new-old Metal Gear Solid game on the market in the form of Delta: Snake Eater, developer-publisher Konami has announced that the stealth-action ...

A European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) holds a bee tightly in its beak. Known for their agility and vibrant colors, these birds expertly catch insects mid-air. Before eating, they skillfully remove ...

Matthew Kang is a correspondent for Eater. Previously, he was the lead editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. He has covered dining, restaurants, food culture, and nightlife in Los ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The red-cheeked cordonbleu is one of over 11,000 avians documented in BIRDBASE. In 1999, Stanford PhD student Çağan Şekercioğlu ...

Variation in seven example traits provided in BIRDBASE. Bars indicate the number of species within categories or subsets of each trait: (A) average body mass, (B) primary habitat, (C) primary diet, (D ...