The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South ...

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I believe most of us have a sense of what genetic engineering is all about — a method of inserting one or more genes of one ...

2025 marks 75 years of historic moments at @TooToughToTame, and we're thrilled to be honoring one of them by celebrating the ...

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A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

In a world where “retail therapy” usually means emptying your wallet faster than you can say “buyer’s remorse,” there exists ...

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

A cecropia moth is hard to miss in the garden. Learn facts about one of the largest and most beautiful moths in America.

In my novel, Tilt, the earthquake strikes in the late morning, on a weekday. My protagonist, Annie, 37 weeks pregnant, is ...