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• The Caterpillar Crawl: Gut Locomotion (September 2010)
• A Hop, Skip and "Jump": Marsupial Migration (September 2010)
• Firefly Synchronicity: A Courtship Ritual (August 2010)
• My What Big Teeth You Have, Leviathan (August 2010)
• Sharks Follow Their Nose (July 2010)
• Lowly Mongooses Have Traditions Too (July 2010)
• Monkey Business: Infants as Social Networking Tools (July 2010)
• Bats Beat Birds as Prodigious Pollinators (June 2010)
• Crabs Gear Up for Marathon (June 2010)
• Homing Pigeons Play Follow the Leader, But Followers Get to Lead (May 2010)
• Animals That Can Hold Their Breath . . . Forever (May 2010)
• The Taste of Water (May 2010)
• Zebrafish Heal a Broken Heart (May 2010)
• Gribble Worms: A Pest with Potential (May 2010)
• Tortoises Follow the Leader (April 2010)
• Variety: The "Spice" of Animal Studies Too? (April 2010)
• Crows Never Forget a Face (April 2010)
• Asexual Organism Plays Hide-and-Seek (March 2010)
• Iron Mollusk: Snail Inspired Armor (February 2010)
• Competitive Mice Make Cooperative Sperm (February 2010)
• Counting Birds By Listening (December 2009)
• A Cold-Blooded Goat? (December 2009)
• The Wolf That Outfoxed Darwin (December 2009)
• Mirror, Mirror: Studying the Smarts of Swine (December 2009)
• Swamp Love — Alligators and the Evolution of Fidelity (November 2009)
• Fish Electrify the Night (November 2009)
• Timing is Everything: Monarch Butterfly Navigation (November 2009)
• Two Birds, One Song: Evolution at Work (October 2009)
• Light Sensing in Birds: On the Trail of a 70-Year-Old Mystery (September 2009)
• Regrowing Limbs Is Not a Free for All (August 2009)
• How the Turtle Got Its Shell (August 2009)
• Second Life: The Return of the Large Blue Butterfly (August 2009)
• Predator and Prey: Using the Startle Response (July 2009)
• Flycatcher Picks Mate with Species in Mind (July 2009)
• Rats in Mazes Daydream About Other Mazes (July 2009)
• Family Values in Fairy-Wrens (July 2009)
• House-Hunting Ants Don't Comparison Shop (June 2009)
• As the Bird, Bat, or Bug Turns: They All Do It the Same (May 2009)
• Termite Queen "Virgin Births" Clears King of Incest (May 2009)
• Birds of a Feather Mate Better Together (May 2009)
• Caterpillars Get a Dose of Their Own Medicine (April 2009)
• Salmon Get Human Biomarker Checkup (March 2009)
• Dolphin Takes Cuttlefish Filet Honors (March 2009)
• Wolf in Dog's Fur (March 2009)
• "Take Me as Your Leader" Said the Caterpillar to the Ant (March 2009)
• Bird Brains Busy Around the Clock (December 2008)
• Two Wings or Four? (December 2008)
• 'Ant from Mars': A New Look at Evolution (October 2008)
• Space Bears: A Tale of Survival (September 2008)
• Antarctic Seals Look Head-On at Climate Change (September 2008)
• X-Ray Vision: Why Your Eyes Face Forward (September 2008)
• Walk on Water the Water Strider Way (September 2008)
• Treeshrews' Drink of Choice—Beer-Like Nectar (September 2008)
• "No Eyes, No Problem," Says the Roundworm (August 2008)
• The Eyes Have It: Biologist Proves Flatfish Asymmetry Gradually Evolved (July 2008)
• Locust Swarms: Traveling Together, Eating Each Other (June 2008)
• Cooperative Problem-Solving Among Rooks: Something to Crow About? (May 2008)
• Alligator Antibiotics: It's In Their Blood (May 2008)
• Why Wasps and Figs Stay Friends (April 2008)
• Gecko Acrobatics (April 2008)
• Moths Don't Forget Their Caterpillar Days (March 2008)
• Whirligig Beetles Know Physics (March 2008)
• Deaf as a Bat? Winging It Without Echolocation (March 2008)
• Songbird Mating: Always True in Their Fashion (February 2008)
• Chameleons: Changing Colors to Stand Out (February 2008)
• The Ant, the Elephant, and the Tree: Complexities of Mutualism (January 2008)
• Insect Altruism—More Than a Family Matter? (January 2008)
• Mental Time Travel: Rats Plan for the Future (December 2007)
• Taboo Toad Sex (December 2007)
• Leaping Lizards! Running for Cover on Santa Fe (November 2007)
• Unfair Share: Chimpanzees Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth (November 2007)
• Secret Senses: Birds 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field (November 2007)
• True Holey Wood Story: The Strange Friendship Between Mollusk and Bacteria (October 2007)
• Chimps Toy with Temptation (September 2007)
• Bringing Up Baby: Condor Care Studied (September 2007)
• Rats & Ratatouille: Eating and Altruism (August 2007)
• Antarctic Biodiversity Under the Sea (June 2007)
• Duck Love Spirals Out of Control (May 2007)
• Winging It, Swift Style (May 2007)
• Animal Magnetism: How Pigeons Find Their Way Home (March 2007)
• Art of the Hunt, Chimp Style (March 2007)
• If You're Happy and You Know It: Elephants Display Self-Awareness (December 2006)
• Social Bee-havior: It's in the Genes (November 2006)
• Starling Syntax? Animal Grammar and the Evolution of Language (September 2006)
• Flying in Tune: How Mosquitoes Recognize Members of the Opposite Sex (August 2006)
• Stilts or Stumps: For Desert Ants It's all in the Gait (July 2006)
• Scrambling Eggs: How Frog Embryos Sense Danger (July 2006)
• Sick Lobsters Sleep Alone (June 2006)
• Llama Molecules Find Work as Caffeine Detectives (June 2006)
• Name That Dolphin (May 2006)
• Batty for Bone Growth (May 2006)
• The Well-Coiffed Crustacean (April 2006)
• Eat or Be Eaten: The Marching Madness of the Cannibal Crickets (April 2006)
• The Ants Go Running Two by Two (February 2006)
• Canine Companions Sniff Out Cancer (February 2006)
• Lewis the Elephant's Hair-Raising Tale (January 2006)
• A Whale of a Tusk (January 2006)
• This Little Light of Mine, I'm Gonna Let It Shine: Butterflies Harness Photonics (December 2005)
• In Fruit Flies, Sex Cells (December 2005)
• Amazon Ants Are the Devil's Gardeners (November 2005)
• 3,300 Feet Under the Sea (October 2005)
• Dawn of the Dead Grasshoppers (October 2005)
• Chick-a-dee-dee-Danger! (August 2005)
• Dolphin Moms Share Sponging Skills (August 2005)
• The Animal Kingdom Gets Bigger: Biologists Stumble Upon Two New Mammals (July 2005)
• Hibernation on Demand: A Smelly Solution (June 2005)
• Amazonian Ants Build "Death Traps" for Prey (June 2005)
• "Extinct" Woodpecker Lives On (May 2005)
• Daredevil Ants Skydive to Safety (May 2005)
• What's Big, Gray, and Sounds Like a Truck? (May 2005)
• Snake Venom Reveals Its Secrets (April 2005)
• Food for Thought: Bugs Eat a Balanced Diet (March 2005)
• Think Twice Before Tickling a Locust (February 2005)
• Lonely Whale Sings Strange Solos (February 2005)
• In the World of the Wasp, Cheating Doesn't Pay (January 2005)
• Fly by Night, No Sleep by Day (November 2004)
• Dogs Can Detect Cancer by Smell (November 2004)
• Squirrels Send Snakes Infrared Signals (September 2004)
• Talking to Dogs (August 2004)
• Leeches: Now FDA Approved (July 2004)
• Male Baboons Give Peace a Chance (July 2004)
• Octopuses Have a "Favorite" Arm (June 2004)
• Cicadas Come Out in Prime Time (June 2004)
• Tropical Boubous Sing a Victory Song (March 2004)
• Homing Pigeons Take to the Roads (February 2004)
• Math Lets Bugs Walk on Water (February 2004)
• Strouhal Number: The Only Way To Fly (January 2004)
• Grandma Gorilla Teaches Baby Care (December 2003)
• Whale Vocal Clans May Show Culture (September 2003)
• Clownfish Use Size to Create Harmony (August 2003)
• "Gecko Tape" Makes Spiderman A Reality (July 2003)
• Python's Virgin Births Stump Scientists (April 2003)
• Orangutans Have Culture, Too (February 2003)
• Army Ants March in Three Lanes (January 2003)
• We All Scream for Fish Protein! (January 2003)
• A Bird's Eye View of the Earth's Magnetic Field (November 2002)
• Creative Crows Have Done It Again: Birds Show Tool-Making Skills (September 2002)
• Male Whales Sing to Attract Potential Mates (August 2002)
• Monarch Butterflies Use Sun as Compass (August 2002)
• Frog Superdad Carries Brood to Survival (August 2002)
• Ants Fired Up into a Fighting Frenzy (August 2002)
• What We Can Learn from Bird Songs (June 2002)
• Prehistoric Insects Found Living in Southern Africa (April 2002)
• Ant Supercolony a Model for Cooperation (March 2002)
• Spider Silk From Goat's Milk (March 2002)
• Africanized Bees Save Endangered Trees (January 2002)
• Tiniest Lizard Sits on a Dime (December 2001)
• Sheep Recognize Each Other (December 2001)
• Elephants Talk Toe-to-Toe (December 2001)
• Lessons from the Beetle and the Fruit Fly (December 2001)
• Sailing the Seas of... Magnetic Fields (October 2001)
• Caterpillars Got Rhythm (September 2001)
• The Firefly's Secret Revealed (July 2001)
• Bugs as Bug Repellent (July 2001)
• Birds Learning New Songs (July 2001)
• Deep Sea Mammals Don't See Deep Blue (June 2001)
• Titanic Dinosaur Looms Over Egypt (June 2001)
• Hibernation: Snoozing Without Losing (April 2001)
• Reviving Without Warming (April 2001)
• Even Elephants Need Chaperones (January 2001)
• Humpback Whales at the Top of the Pop Charts (December 2000)
• These Birds Leave a Bad Taste in Your Mouth (December 2000)
• Amoeba: Will Solve Maze for Food (November 2000)
• Wasp Reprograms Spider to Build Special Web (October 2000)
• Smooth Landings, Honeybee Style (October 2000)
• Cat and Mouse Revisited (October 2000)
• Mirror, Mirror, in the Stall (October 2000)
• Monarch Magnetics (March 2000)
• Biting the Branch That Feeds You (December 1999)
• Once Again, Ant Farmers Out-do Humans (December 1999)
• Bees Vie for Prizes Behind Colored Doors (April 1999)
• Half-Asleep Birds On the Watch (April 1999)
• Sealcam Catches Hunters in the Act (April 1999)
• Scientists Follow Chemical Trail of Migration (February 1999)
• Voles Get High on Love (February 1999)
• Ant Farms Around for 50 Million Years (December 1998)
• Counting Monkeys Threaten Human Uniqueness (December 1998)
• The What, When and Where of Avian Memory (December 1998)
• Harbor Seals Use Whiskers to Fish (September 1998)