Olympia oysters, whose native range runs from Baja California to southern Alaska, are being enlisted as ecological engineers ...

Spiders create ideal traps with their webs. This is a guide to some of the most common types of spider webs.

A crow funeral can happen at any time. Farmers bear witness after shooting unwanted crows in their fields. Powerline workers see them should an unlucky bird zap itself and drop. Occasionally, the ...

Ever picked up a piece of sandstone or Monterey shale at the beach and found a hole through it? “Witch stones” may have the look of magical amulets, but they’re actually the life’s work of a ...

In the mid-2000s, biologist Kim Meyer conducted a two-year census of nesting raptors in the Presidio of San Francisco for the National Park Service, which had recently inherited the former military ...

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Bay Nature Talk: Sunflower Sea Star Join Bay Nature Magazine and Cal Academy marine biologists and experts Riah Evin and Elora López-Nandam for a virtual talk about sunflower sea stars on Wednesday, ...

Come join us at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in Fremont for a special event highlighting the importance of protecting our endangered species! Learn about ...

Geology Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways Long buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.

Just a century ago, foraging for wild foods would have been unremarkable--part of daily life for many people. That's not true today, but foraging is making a comeback, with ever more people interested ...

Inspired by the science of beaver wetlands, activists tackle a long-held belief that beavers aren't native to much of California.

Fire The Burning Question in the East Bay Hills: Eucalyptus Is Flammable Compared to What? Twenty-five years after the Oakland Hills fire, people still disagree about whether blue gum eucalyptus is a ...