Scorpions don't just inhabit bleak desert landscapes. The Bay Area has four local species of scorpion, as one butterfly enthusiast discovered on an expedition to Albany Hill one crisp November...
Nothing heralds autumn and the holiday season like the evocative sound of geese, honking their way South on a blast of Arctic air. But many Canada geese now skip the...
To David Lukas, a freelance naturalist and author who lives just outside of Yosemite National Park, observing plants and animals in their native habitats is as essential as breathing or...
Dominik Mosur takes birds very seriously. He's out daily birding around San Francisco, and he even works with injured birds and other wildlife at the Randall Museum. And now he's...
A remarkable event happens every year along the Tuolumne River, but sadly, very few people know about it: Chinook salmon run up the river to their spawning grounds, and the...
A pod of humpback whales, about two or three families, adults with a few calves, have been dazzling whale-watchers since about October 18, as they feed in Monterrey Bay about...
This winter, the traffic bottlenecks around Santa Rosa might be a little easier to manage--at least if you happen to be a California tiger salamander. Santa Rosa's population of tiger...
With last year's wet winter and this fall's early rains in October, time is short for the staff and volunteers of the Salmon Protection and Restoration Network (SPAWN), who are...
With Halloween right around the corner, it's only natural to think of cobwebs and hairy creatures lurking in dark places. Just the thought of these creepy, crawling, eight-legged, web tangling,...
Would you believe that acorn woodpeckers have the most complex social relationships of any animal with a backbone? One expert says so. Watch the birds for a while, and you...
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