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Was Chicago named after a wild onion?

How hormone replacement affects the bodies of transgender individuals

The revery alone won’t do: Restoring America’s prairies

The tumbleweed invasion

Otters in Chicago? The story behind their Illinois comeback

Feeding birds in winter: helpful or harmful?

Preserving the body: Embalming practices began during the Civil War

In what distant deeps: The terrifying tigerfish

The salamanders that found a form of eternal youth are now in danger

The enormous hissing cockroaches of Madagascar are gentle giants

What makes malachite so mesmerizing

Red invasion: The rise of the Red Cherry Shrimp

A crawling shape intrudes: The earthworm invasion

The strange problem of the self-cloning crayfish

Cat fights: The debate about outdoor felines

Save the native bees: Reframing the bee problem

Quantum leap: The invasion of the African clawed frog

Sustainable freshwater fishkeeping: Insights from aquarist Rachel O’Leary

The myth of the Chilean plant that supposedly murdered sheep

Plight of the sea monk: Monkfish and sustainable fishing

Where did all of these stink bugs come from?

Leucistic animals are not to be confused with albino animals

Few grow good: The strange story of the domestication of the fox

The curious case of the Osage orange and the megafauna extinction

Reynard of the steppes: The Tibetan sand fox

Different factors drive varying states of hibernation in animals

An appreciation of the praying mantis

Under the skin: The fascinating lives of botflies

Octopus on the half shell: The amazing argonaut

Chasing the green fairy: Absinthe, fact and fiction

Carnivorous caterpillars are hungry… for flesh

Spanish Ghost: Resurrection of the Iberian Lynx

What makes ricin toxic: A complicated history

The mysterious origins of patchouli

What is it about baobab trees that makes them so captivating?

Fish cognition: Why Dory isn’t as dumb as she seems

Venom proteins cause allergic response to fire ant stings

Shed a light: The evolution of fireless fireflies

Because the night: A parrot after dark

How house mice made themselves a part of human life

All the better to eat you with, my dear: The evolution of jaws

Birds follow their noses with a highly developed sense of smell

Smarter Together: Mixed species foraging flocks

Raptors find a home in the city

Dirty birdies: The case of the stinking bird

Nurse sharks migrate between uteri… and eat their siblings

Botanical albinos: The science behind plants without chlorophyll

Preserved eggs reveal how dinosaurs raised their kids

Take my kid: Brood parasitism in the animal kingdom

Inky black all over: The evolutionary implications of melanism

Pretty poison and Müllerian mimicry: Teaming up to avoid predation

How male seahorses give birth

The truth about relict megafauna

Cut and paste: Ants are more impressive than they may appear

Canine crooners: The New Guinea highland wild dog

A tale of tails: Vestigial organs as evolutionary footprints

The net of life: Hybridization and evolution

How gynandromorphs manage to be half male and half female

Come together: Raptors aren’t always loners

Fantastic phasmids: The mysterious lives of stick insects

Snakes in the snow: The resilience of the rubber boa

When spiders unite: African social spiders live in large groups of up to 1,000

Britannica Blog

Improving on Perfection: The Swimsuit Issue

A Watering Hole in the Windy City

Lush Vegetation: 5 Questions with Amy Stewart, Author of The Drunken Botanist

The Census of Marine Life’s Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) Project: 5 Questions for Principal Investigator Randy Kochevar

That Sinking Feeling: Explore the Ocean Deep with Britannica

Jewels from the Mud: The Elegance of Water Lilies

The Modern Mariner: 5 Questions with Philippe Cousteau

Lush Vegetation: 5 Questions with Amy Stewart, Author of The Drunken Botanist

Sand, Surf, and Research: 5 Questions for Mote Marine Laboratory CEO and President Kumar Mahadevan

The Cactus’s Doppelgänger: Convergence in the Desert

Wings of Ire (The Jamaican Flightless Ibis): 5 Questions for Yale Paleontologist Nick Longrich

Of Evolutionary Amputation and Projectile Tongues: 5 Questions with Reptile Researcher Alex Pyron

Little Leviathan: A Small Shark Shows Its Teeth

Filleted Fossil: The Unlikely Discovery of the Coelacanth

The Merganser: Shark-Slaying Dandy

The [Snowy] Owl By Day

Specious Spidey Sense: The “Arachno-Apocalypse” in India

The Gollum Diet: Cave Creatures from Around the World

I Am the Common Carp, Destroyer of Aquatic Ecosystems

Of Winged Things the Swiftest: The Migratory Odyssey of North American Raptors

Wolf from Oz: The Last Thylacine?

Prime Suspects: Profiling Winged Invaders

Chi-town’s Animal Magnetism: 5 Questions for Biologist Seth Magle

Everyone Will Want Flies in Their Soup: 5 Questions on Entomophagy with Arnold van Huis, Tropical Entomologist

Dark Water: 5 Questions with Marine Cave Biologist Tom Iliffe

Butterflies on Corpses: 5 Questions with Conservation Biologist Phil Torres

Bedknobs and Bite Marks (The Rise of the Bed Bug): Five Questions with Entomologist Louis Sorkin

A Tad Spiny, But With Violet Fins to Die For: 5 Questions with Shark Ecologist Paul Clerkin

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