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Spiders with super-fast mousetrap mouths

In the forests of South America and New Zealand, trap-jaw spiders have mouths clamp down on their quarry like a mousetrap, at lightning speeds.

Shireen Gonzaga

April 15, 2016

Rainbows around the world

Images of rainbows from all over the world taken by EarthSky's Facebook friends. Beautiful!

Eleanor Imster

April 15, 2016

Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths likely due to oil

Study finds higher rate of illness and death in newborns and juvenile bottlenose dolphins after Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Eleanor Imster

April 12, 2016

Another wave of bird extinctions in the Americas?

Several bird species are taking their final bows on the global evolutionary stage, and winking out. The situation in northeast Brazil is particularly dire.

EarthSky Voices

April 11, 2016

This ancient arthropod kept its babies on a leash

Scientists have discovered a tiny 430-million-year-old sea creature - dubbed Kite Runner - that apparently dragged its offspring around on strings like kites.

Eleanor Imster

April 7, 2016

California drought now the norm?

California drought patterns have occurred much more frequently in recent decades, says a new study.

Eleanor Imster

April 6, 2016

Ocean temps predict heat waves 50 days out

Scientists identified what they call the Pacific Extreme Pattern - warm seawater next to cool seawater - and showed its connection to heat waves weeks later.

Deborah Byrd

April 3, 2016

Sea-level rise underestimated by half?

A new study suggests that sea-level rise over the next 100 years could be nearly double earlier estimates.

Editors of EarthSky

April 1, 2016

Evolution insights from a walking cavefish

Fish evolved into the first land vertebrates 420 million years ago. Clues to that fins-to-limbs transformation may lie in a walking blind cavefish in Thailand.

Shireen Gonzaga

March 30, 2016