Nature Spots

Northern crescent butterfly on swamp milkweed flowers (Photo by Jaimee Morozoff/NCC staff)

What do a sun bear, a sloth bear and a polar bear have in common? Despite living in vastly different

Monarch Butterfly on Joe Pye (Photo by NCC) May 11, 2022 | by Katherine

A recent study shows that hippo groups are territorial entities that behave less aggressively toward their neighbors than toward strangers.

This Mother’s Day, celebrate mothers of the animal kingdom! Motherhood for marsupials doesn’t look like making school lunches or warm

The Northern Great Plains spans more than 180 million acres and crosses five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. This

A fear of snakes is one of the most common human phobias. While such anxieties once protected us, in modern

What is the sound of nearly two million wildebeest and zebra moving across the plains of Tanzania’s Serengeti and Kenya’s

Play a game of Guess Who? with pine needles from four species (Painted by Mena Wallace)

© Brad Josephs There’s a new “Big Five” in town. Well, in Alaska, that is. Go beyond the famous quintuplet