At Point Pinole, 21 sturgeon carcasses––some more than seven feet long––lay strewn along a mile-long stretch of beach in late August 2022, baking in the relentless heat. It was the...
Researchers are investigating the secrets of our two resident sturgeon species, which have razor-sharp armor and shlorp up clams with their vacuum-shaped mouths.
You don’t have to go far. But it helps to spend all your spare time in the woods. That's what Vishal Subramanyan, 20, does.
She was born in captivity, it turns out. And she'll only get to stay free and wild if she behaves—so humans should definitely not feed her, take selfies with her,...
A Bat Brigade of volunteers has been helping collect data at the "bat castle," watching when bats leave their roosts to forage.
NatureCheck assesses East Bay habitat by looking at indicator species like ground squirrels, rainbow trout, hoary bats and golden eagles. You can help!
To improve habitat connectivity, Midpen is working with partners to supplement a dark, narrow culvert under Highway 17 near Lexington Reservoir with another underpass designed specifically for wildlife.
A little too hairy and a little too pinchy to classify as charismatic, scorpions strike fear in the hearts of many—through no fault of their own. A scorpion expert sets...
Maybe it helps them hunt. Maybe not. From the sketchbook of John Muir Laws.
When butterfly mania took hold of me, decades back, I thought I’d never crack the skippers’ code: the creatures are impish, and maddening to learn.
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