Take the new cat personality test
The Cat Tracker Project is launching a new cat personality test. Take 10 minutes and complete the survey to unveil your cat's personality characteristics. Your [...]
The Wild Life of Columbus
The untold story of the species that stowed away on Columbus’s ship and how they have since changed the world. Columbus sailed to the Caribbean [...]
The Beat Goes On
Princess Ahmose Meryet Amun -- daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh -- died with a heavy heart in 1540 BC. It was not until 2008, some [...]
Eating off the Floor: How Clean Living Is Bad for You
Ten steps to a healthier life and more wealth through embracing the bacteria around you. Book titles are difficult to choose. In theory, a perfect [...]
Sick People Smell Bad: Why Dogs Sniff Dogs, Humans Sniff Humans, and Dogs Sometimes Sniff Humans
[quote author="- Adulterated, in the interest of good science, from Sartre 1967, p. 174"]“The smell of a body is the (bacteria themselves) which we breathe [...]
Wanted: Missing Scenes of Nature (in your HOUSE!)
[slideshow alias="scenes"] Show us predation. Show us prey. Draw us a food web. We know so very little about the wild things in our [...]
NRC 24-Hour Grand Opening April 20-21, 2012
Mark Your Calendars! You are invited to the 24-hour grand opening celebration of the new Nature Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural [...]
Cyclorhipidion “Your Name Here”
The naming opportunity for a new species of bark beetle (discovered and classified by Your Wild Life Team members Andrea Lucky and Jiri Hulcr) was [...]
Wild Life of Our Bodies on The People’s Pharmacy (Podcast)
Thousands of years ago (and more), human beings co-existed with a wide range of other species that lived around us and even on our skin [...]
Scientific American Podcast
Think of the weirdest creatures you’ve even seen in a sci-fi film. Now think of this: there are far stranger, albeit smaller, critters living in [...]
Scientist Spots Missing Link in his Basement, but is too Sleepy to Catch it
If everything works out right a child in the years between two and ten spends hundreds of hours lying on the floor in her room [...]
Public bathrooms house thousands of kinds of bacteria
…especially on toilets which, by the way, saved humanity, changed our ecology, and made the modern city possible. If you are the sort of person [...]
New Bee Species Discovered in New York…
New species of bee discovered in Gotham... This exciting story reminds us of a radio interview Rob did with Jai Ranganathan at Miller McCune on [...]
1% of the cells in your body are human?
The other 99% are bacterial? Really? Could this be? “I better google this,” you might be thinking to yourself. Google away. The answer often tossed [...]
Man Discovers Giant Deadly Housefly
Each day, in each country, a housefly is born. Lots of houseflies really. Houseflies have been being born around us for thousands of years. They [...]