The team films something not seen before: an hours-long teaching session between adults and their young. Killer whales are one of only a handful of animals that actively teach their young, and it’s ...

A mother mountain lion risks her life to feed her six kittens. This rare footage captures her incredible fight against the odds with a large elk in the snowy wilderness of Montana.

Mountain lions risk everything to hunt elk, prey more than twice their size. After ten years of monitoring mountain lions in Montana, this crew has captured this behavior on camera only four times.

This orphaned baby walrus, dubbed Little Miss Walrus, was found alone on a remote Alaskan beach, just one week old and covered in scratches. She’s now safe at the Alaska SeaLife Center, the only place ...

The Arctic “death spiral” refers to the rapid loss of sea ice caused by climate change. For walruses, this means losing the ice platforms they rely on to rest, raise their young, and hunt. Discover ...

It was once believed that walruses dug for clams with their tusks—but the truth is even stranger. They actually use their powerful tongues, like a piston, to suck clams right out of their shells.

NATURE presents the compelling story of a remarkable denizen of the West in Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies. America’s wild horses lead an exhilarating but perilous existence. The climate can be ...

Marine ecologist Alannah Vellacott grew up in a Bahamian subsistence fishing community, where wrestling sharks before sunrise was part of daily life. Now she’s dedicated to conserving these majestic ...

As a science journalist, Ed Yong spends a lot of time writing about nature without actually being immersed in it. After three years of covering the COVID pandemic, Ed found himself anxious, depressed, ...

In a city that loves celebrities, one mountain lion became the mascot for conservation efforts that eventually led to the creation of California’s first wildlife corridor. But one wildlife corridor, ...

Long before the infamous Central Park incident went viral (where a white woman called the cops on him during a birdwatching outing), Christian Cooper had been obsessed with birds. It was a love ...

Clouded leopards are larger than small cats and smaller than big cats. Males are twice the size of females, with females weighing 22 to 30 pounds and males weighing 44 to 55 pounds. They measure 26 to ...