Discover what’s inside a turtle shell, living bone fused to spine and ribs, packed with organs, muscles, and nerves that ...

Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...

Italian food runs in the Rallo family’s blood. Victor Rallo opened his first restaurant with his father in Point Pleasant ...

In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

If you build it, they will come.

Baleen whales don’t have teeth. Instead, they use baleen, a filtering system that lets the largest animals on Earth feed on ...

The saola is a real and documented animal, but it remains a mystery to most experts and researchers. A forest-dwelling bovid ...

The Hands Gallery celebrates 50 years of supporting local artists in Boone. Read more about Tim Brown and Eric Reichard’s ...