Author: Jake

Australia’s long geographic isolation helped produce animals with combinations of traits that can seem almost invented: egg-laying mammals, water-harvesting lizards, blind marsupial diggers, armored birds,

Animal myths can survive for generations because they are simple, memorable, and repeated in cartoons, films, sayings, and social media. The real biology is often

A dense ball of leaves high in a tree is easy to mistake for an oversized bird nest. In many cases, it is actually a

Bald eagles build some of the largest nests made by any bird. Typical structures are already several feet across, and nests reused for many years