New experiences, however carnal they might be, are worth reporting and yesterday's spectacle deserves a post. It began early in the aft...
New experiences, however carnal they might be, are worth reporting and yesterday's spectacle deserves a post. It began early in the aft...
In late April, wetlands across the Temperate Zone of North America harbor a riot of sound and color; the Garth Wetlands, in north Columbia, ...
On my visit to Waterton Canyon yesterday, I took a side trail down to the South Platte, hoping to spot a dipper. My effort was in vain but,...
Reptiles, the last major group of ectotherms (cold-blooded animals) to appear on Earth, evolved in the Carboniferous Period, about 300 milli...
June is a good month for wildflower viewing along the Front Range urban corridor since late spring blooms mingle with those that persist thr...
Just south of Gainesville, Florida, Interstate 75 crosses a broad valley covered by a shrubby grassland. This is the western portion of the...
Red Bug Slough Preserve is a 72 acre refuge in the southern suburbs of Sarasota, Florida. Stretching along a drainage channel, it is charac...
At the trailhead for the Sharptail Ridge Open Space preserve, south of Denver, a sign warns of rattlesnakes in the area. Of course, similar...
Grindstone Creek Nature Area, in Columbia, Missouri, is another excellent area for birding. Riparian woodlands line the stream and limeston...
Following the gradual thaw of March and the steady transition of April, an explosion of life occurs in May and June across the Northern Hemi...
Today's warm, sunny weather lured garter snakes from our rock wall for the first time this season. Over the course of an hour or so, I ...
While April weather can be fickle, there is generally a significant transition toward warmer days, punctuated by regular periods of rain. O...
Turtles evolved in the Triassic Period of the Mesozoic Era, some 200 million years ago, a time when small dinosaurs and the first, shrew-lik...
Life, itself, evolved in Earth's primordial oceans about 3.6 billion years ago; these initial unicellular forms of life were likely chem...
Of the many landscapes that we crossed on our trip back to Missouri from South Florida, the broad tidal marsh of the lower Pascagoula River ...
Attempting to rescue our plants from the brutal summer weather, I was watering last evening when I spotted a small lizard as it dashed from ...
Closely related to the six-lined racerunner of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern U.S., the prairie racerunner is found from northwestern Ind...
Stretching across the Bear Creek floodplain in north Columbia, Missouri, the Garth Nature Preserve harbors one of the best urban wetlands th...
Crocodilians, now represented by crocodiles, alligators and caimans, split from other reptiles and early dinosaurs back in the Triassic Peri...
The Myakka River, in southwest Florida, one of only two rivers designated "Wild & Scenic" by the Sunshine State, rises in nort...