Middle grade and young adult author Justine Pucella Winans talks about books and cats and how writing cats into their novels ...

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Most plants and animals are exposed to a wide range of environmental variations. A study published in the journal Nature and ...

Donald Griffin co-discovered bat sonar, founded the field of echolocation, and opened the door for the study of awareness and ...

London Zoo keepers have captured striking photographs of their most "superstition-shrouded" nocturnal residents with a ...

Sy Montgomery loves chickens. Not only those she has lived with — the “Ladies,” whose behavior she can detail at length — but ...

The Night Woods’ by Paula Munier. Minotaur, 320 pages, $29  Paula Munier’s insightful series about Mercy Carr poignantly ...

Wild animals might not just accidentally consume ethanol from fermented fruits and nectar; it's likely a regular part of their diet. Researchers suggest that ethanol, naturally abundant in ecosystems ...

UChicago course examines the transformation trope across literature and film—from repressed desire to outsider identities ...

Nature writer Leigh Ann Henion opens her sweet, wise "Night Magic" with a haunting story. A child lost in the woods overnight ...

In “Night of Power,” Robert Fisk’s posthumous war stories focus on the victims and perpetrators in conflicts across the ...

“absolute favorite book,” her caption read as she posted a photo of a book called On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman ...