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The Georgia Department of Natural Resources on Monday asked social media followers if they could identify a 'slithering critter' photographed recently in a pine forest. For some, it took a while to ...

Winter is when an animal's adaptations mean survival. For some animals, adaptations can turn winter into a plentiful bounty. In the animal world, few structures can compare with the adaptability of a ...

Have you ever walked through your yard or somewhere in South Carolina and heard a strange rustling sound in a nearby bush? While walking along more remote or densely forested nature preserves, this ...

Well, good luck with that. I’d recommend clippers if you really need one of these pine cones. Strong, stout clippers. (Wait —is it “pine cone” or “pinecone”?) The seed cones, shown here from a ...

John Scoggin collects ponderosa pine cones June 26 in the forest near LaPine, Ore. Scoggin, who works in Bend and lives in La Pine, says he can fill four or five 42-gallon trash bags with cones in the ...

The work of artist J. Blake Harris could easily make for some striking concert posters were it not for the complete lack of text. His hand-colored photographs of simple, natural objects such as ...