Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. Popular and distinctive, known for their kitten-like faces and ...

Defense mechanisms are crucial to all animal life. Since animals in every biome must eat to survive, prey animals must constantly avoid being eaten. Animals employ adaptations that add to the chances ...

It’s a natural fact that wind and water don’t respect national boundaries. One country’s pollution quickly can, and often does, become another country’s environmental and economic crisis. And because ...

Pineapples were so sought-after in colonial times that people would rent them for a day to use as a party decoration. Yes, at one point in history, the pineapple was literally too expensive to eat.

The elusive snow leopard was listed on the IUCN Red List as endangered in 1986. In 2017, its status changed to vulnerable—one step below endangered—and it remains there to this day. However, the IUCN ...