Jennifer Geer

Quick Take Hoatzin chicks pull off a daring escape from predators that no other modern bird attempts, and the whole feat hinges on a body part that vanishes before adulthood.

Quick Take Ice forming inside a living body should be a death sentence. Yet one tiny frog has turned that process into a survival superpower.

Quick Take The parasite doesn't just disguise the snail. It hijacks a hardwired survival instinct and flips it completely against the snail.

The unassuming eastern emerald elysia lives in shallow salt marshes tidal pools , estuaries, and other brackish coastal waters, ranging as far north

Quick Take Some sharks in this order are warm-blooded, a trait that changes everything about how they hunt.

Quick Take This tree grows a food source that keeps its tiny army fed and loyal.

Quick Take Nepal's reforestation policies may have unintentionally contributed to its monkey conflict.

Quick Take A spider figured out something it took human engineers centuries to replicate, and it does it with silk.

Quick Take Two birdwatchers standing feet apart at the same site can have completely opposite experiences, where one sees thousands of hawks overhead while the other sees none.

Quick Take The father was the one who spotted the tooth first, so why couldn't he be the one to pull it out?