Snow leopards are extreme athletes with some wizard-like abilities. Find out more about these big cats’ amazing skills.
Photograph by Sylvain Cordier / NPL / Minden Pictures Too bad these cats don’t compete
few bat myths to learn the truth about these flying mammals and why they get a bad
Why do we „fall back?“
Learn how this „unlucky“ day got such a bad reputation.
Scientist Superheroes Fight Killer Fungus
And bad news for these creatures means trouble for people too.
An article about invasive plants on their effects on native plants and animals.
And that’s bad for the Earth, because we need a variety of living things to keep
Discover how spirit bears have a few eerie traits in common with ghosts and other supernatural beings in this Special Halloween Issue. These rare black bears have white fur and live on isolated islands off the west coast of Canada. Plus see how black bears measure up to grizzlies in traits like height, weight, and claw length in our „bear showdown.“
Find out if bats really want to drink your blood, if black cats bring bad luck, and
Not far from the North Pole, the world is frozen for thousands of miles. Suddenly a snowy mound wiggles and reveals two dark eyes. The lump is transformed into the furry white body of a lone arctic fox. The canine casually shakes the blanket of snow off her thick coat—the key to her survival. But warm fur alone might not keep this fox alive during the polar winter, when temperatures rarely get above zero degrees Fahrenheit. Until spring arrives, this arctic fox will rely on some freeze-defying strategies, making it a champion of the cold.
If a fox can’t find food, or if the weather gets really bad, it can dig a snow den
Tips on how to photograph the moon.
But if the weather’s really bad, you could always go out the next night and still
Get the facts on Jupiter, one of the largest planets.
solid surface to explore here, and skydiving from your ship’s airlock would be a bad
If you think of the eight planets as members of Earth’s family—friendly cousins who swing by regularly and never cause any grief—then asteroids are the total strangers lurking in the neighborhood. And like strangers, their visits aren’t always welcome. Asteroids are the rubble left over from the solar system’s formation roughly 4.6 billion years ago.
. • Not all asteroid strikes are bad for us Earthlings.
