It has been my great privilege, over the last couple of months, to shift from photographing only the land- and ...

A woman was excited to spot an otter at a Lancaster County lake.Melissa-Ann Kolessar, of Ephrata, snapped photos of the ... favorites.Otters may also eat frogs, turtles, snails, mussels, crayfish ...

Tuesday, April 8, marks National Zoo Lovers Day. For those in and around Greater Philadelphia, there’s no better place to ...

Just a transistor radio, a hammock, and the possibility of seeing a turtle. It was enough. For Satish Bhaskar, the joy lay not in discovery as much as in the quiet act of observing: measuring ...

Distribution of the frogs studied and examples of their finger disc widths. Distribution of the Kaloula conjuncta complex A and B K. picta. Diamond = location of samples sequenced for this study ...

tree frogs, turtles, cottonmouth snakes, and American alligators. Forty mammal species are known to utilize cypress domes. These include raccoons, river otters, bobcats, marsh rabbits, and white ...

This smooth horned frog (Proceratophrys boiei) was among those species considered. See F.S. Campos et al., “Cost-effective conservation of amphibian ecology and evolution,” Science Advances, ...

The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the fiercely independent artist as she tries a career first: writing a song with another artist. By Alissa Wilkinson This deliciously nasty reworking of the ...

River Turtle. Image via Openverse. The primary turtle known for this unusual breathing method is the Fitzroy River turtle (Rheodytes leukops), native to the Fitzroy River basin in Queensland, ...

Sometimes the best camouflage, however, is sticking out like a sore thumb. At first glance, that’s exactly how the glass frog seems to obscure itself against the foliage. Its skin is translucent, ...