nature

May 17, 2022

Science

Man’s Other Best Friend

Amber Dance

May 7, 2022

Science

Humans Can’t Quit a Basic Myth About Dog Breeds

Katherine J. Wu

April 28, 2022

Science

Alert! Polar Bear Incoming

Andrew Chapman

April 23, 2022

A radar scanner with a polar bear pictured inside

Books Briefing

The Inner Lives of Animals

Nicole Acheampong

April 22, 2022

A goat and a cockatiel conversing with each other

Science

What Humans Can Learn From Nature’s Biggest Hibernators

Chris Woolston

April 10, 2022

A hibernating mother bear and her three-month-old cub

Science

What Can One Disease Do to a Landscape?

Ed Yong

April 7, 2022

A puma, vicuñas, and a condor, with blue squiggly lines linking them

Science

Have Americans Been Mercilessly Squashing a Creepy Bug for Nothing?

Abigail Gruskin

April 6, 2022

a spotted lanternfly wings through the blue sky

Science

Naked Mole Rats Have a Very Strange Status Symbol

Katherine J. Wu

April 5, 2022

a naked mole rat moving toward the camera through a small tunnel

Ideas

All Creatures Great and Small

George Packer

April 3, 2022

Science

Who Moved My Seed?

Katherine J. Wu

April 1, 2022

a northern olingo taking seeds off a Zamia pseudoparasitica plant

Science

You Try Constricting Your Prey and Breathing at the Same Time

Katherine J. Wu

March 24, 2022

Science

The Freeloading Boyfriends That Just Won’t Let Go

Katherine J. Wu

March 14, 2022

a male harlequin toad clasping a female toad from behind

Technology

Feeling Herd

Ian Bogost

March 13, 2022

A woman hugging a cow with shining lights.

Science

North America’s Largest Rodent Is on the Move

Kylie Mohr

February 20, 2022

Books

America’s Love-Hate Relationship With the Bald Eagle

Nathaniel Rich

March 2022 Issue

portrait of a bald eagle looking to the right and perched on a branch

Science

Florida’s Bonefish Are Riddled With Human Drugs

Natasha Gilbert

February 6, 2022

Science

How Can Something So Small Live So Long?

Tim Vernimmen

January 23, 2022

Science

Satellites Are Spotting the Beached Whales We Never Would Have Found

Claudia Geib

January 22, 2022

Science

A Human Can Befriend an Octopus. Can an Octopus Befriend a Human?

Ferris Jabr

January 16, 2022

Science

Every Night, Hordes of Sea Creatures Rise From the Deep

Hannah Seo

December 11, 2021

Science

It’s Not You, It’s Climate Change

Katherine J. Wu

November 23, 2021

black-browed albatrosses in the Falklands

Science

No Bird Wants to Live in a Murder Nest

Katherine J. Wu

November 16, 2021

Ideas

The Elephant Who Could Be a Person

Jill Lepore

November 16, 2021

Poem

Pear

Erica Funkhouser

December 2021 Issue

painted illustration of pear and leaves on beige background

Science

Hedges Do Way More Than Block Your View

Katarina Zimmer and Knowable Magazine

November 13, 2021

A patchwork of fields on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall

Books

Animals of the Future

Rebecca Giggs

December 2021 Issue

Illustration of a ribbon of spider silk covered with spiders stretching across star-filled space to wrap around a blue planet with a blue flower growing from it

Science

Killer Whales Are Too Similar for Their Own Good

Hakai Magazine and Shi En Kim

November 7, 2021

Science

Spiders Play All Sorts of Mind Games

Betsy Mason and Knowable Magazine

November 6, 2021

Science

The Next Weird Way We’re Changing Cats

Sarah Zhang

November 5, 2021

A tissue box with a tissue in it shaped as the silhouette of a cat

Science

The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind

Ed Yong

November 3, 2021

Science

After 30 Years of Breeding Condors, a Secret Comes Out

Sarah Zhang

October 28, 2021

Science

Do You Even Lift, Embryo?

Katherine J. Wu

October 26, 2021

Science

The Animal Kingdom Is Full of Genetic Screwballs

Alla Katsnelson and Knowable Magazine

October 24, 2021

Science

African Elephants Evolved Tusklessness Amazingly Fast

Ed Yong

October 21, 2021

Science

Zombie Shark, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo

Claudia Geib and Hakai Magazine

October 10, 2021

A Lesser Spotted Catshark rests in shallow waters.

Sections

The Print Edition

Frogs Keep Mating With the Wrong Things

Man’s Other Best Friend

Humans Can’t Quit a Basic Myth About Dog Breeds

Alert! Polar Bear Incoming

The Inner Lives of Animals

What Humans Can Learn From Nature’s Biggest Hibernators

What Can One Disease Do to a Landscape?

Have Americans Been Mercilessly Squashing a Creepy Bug for Nothing?

Naked Mole Rats Have a Very Strange Status Symbol

All Creatures Great and Small

Who Moved My Seed?

You Try Constricting Your Prey and Breathing at the Same Time

The Freeloading Boyfriends That Just Won’t Let Go

Feeling Herd

North America’s Largest Rodent Is on the Move

America’s Love-Hate Relationship With the Bald Eagle

Florida’s Bonefish Are Riddled With Human Drugs

How Can Something So Small Live So Long?

Satellites Are Spotting the Beached Whales We Never Would Have Found

A Human Can Befriend an Octopus. Can an Octopus Befriend a Human?

Every Night, Hordes of Sea Creatures Rise From the Deep

It’s Not You, It’s Climate Change

No Bird Wants to Live in a Murder Nest

The Elephant Who Could Be a Person

Pear

Hedges Do Way More Than Block Your View

Animals of the Future

Killer Whales Are Too Similar for Their Own Good

Spiders Play All Sorts of Mind Games

The Next Weird Way We’re Changing Cats

The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind

After 30 Years of Breeding Condors, a Secret Comes Out

Do You Even Lift, Embryo?

The Animal Kingdom Is Full of Genetic Screwballs

African Elephants Evolved Tusklessness Amazingly Fast

Zombie Shark, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo