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Read more about Local Fly Food Secrets

Could differences in the food animals like be enough to eventually separate one species into two? Learn what flies are teaching us about what can cause new species to form.

Madeline Sopa

Read more about Defending Desert-dwellers

Cacti live in one of the harshest climates on the planet: the desert. Scientists are investigating how we can make life easier for these desert-dwelling plants.

A desert sunset showing saguaros picture by Monika Häfliger

Madeline Sopa

Read more about Anatomy of the Taiga

Anatomy of the Taiga

Entryway to Verkhoyansk — Verkhoyansk is tied in the running for the location where the lowest temperature in the northern hemisphere has been recorded. This image shows the entryway to the town. Image by Becker0804.

Desert Diggers

John Alcock

The digger bee is just one of about a thousand species of native bees in Arizona, many of which have females that burrow into the ground with their jaws and legs when constructing a nest.

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