Each palm-size owl caught is a rush, not only because it is an encounter in the dark with pure wildness. Saw-whets are one of ...

Arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris). Jeremiah Degenhardt via iNaturalist, CC BY-NC 4.0 One day, while poking around beneath a pot in my family’s backyard, I discovered a glistening arboreal ...

Later this year, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land within the tribe’s historical ...

A money spider (Tenuiphantes sp.) balloons, under controlled conditions, from its daisy perch. You can see the trichobothria (leg hairs) and dragline silk in this picture. (Michael Hutchinson via ...

This article is from bioGraphic, an independent magazine about nature and regeneration powered by the California Academy of Sciences. I see my first sunflower sea star in a plastic container barely ...

Monarchs roost on a eucalyptus tree at Moran Lake in Santa Cruz. (Stuart Weiss, Ph.D.) Audrey Fusco can’t help getting excited at the sight of one monarch butterfly these days. In the spring sun in ...

Examining the human-engineered oyster substrate at Giant Marsh during a low tide in May 2025. (Sonya Bennett Brandt) This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

Here to stay? Mats of Eurasian watermilfoil clog waterways in the Tahoe Keys, on Lake Tahoe’s south side. It can regrow from a wisp. (Sonya Bennett-Brandt) In the shallows of south Lake Tahoe, diver ...

It’s a cool February morning in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Coastal Range. The air smells fresh and mulchy thanks to the recent rain. As you meander down the trail, a persistent tapping sound drifts ...

Juvenile sunflower sea stars resemble adults and add more arms as they grow. Ocean conservationists and scientists hope to eventually reintroduce them as fearsome urchin predators. (Gayle ...

California Sea Otter (Bureau of Land Management via Flickr, CC By 2.0) A San Francisco crabber for 15 years, Nick Krieger arrived at the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausalito a bit late after a ...