This article is the first installment of the new Hidden Planet column, which explores wondrous, unexpected and sometimes funny science of our planet and beyond. Dating and mating have never been ...

Selecting the right feeder and flowers can help bring hummingbirds flittering into you backyard Caroline Dohack They flit from flower to flower in dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.

For more than a decade, naturalists like Sue Muller have been working to save Maryland’s official state insect, the endangered Baltimore checkerspot. Muller, along with many naturalists and ...