NATURE

Watch people see the true range of fall colors for the first time.

The Salton Sea was created by accident, is heavily polluted, and can't survive on its own. Why bother to save this strange place?

“It was a bit like an end-of-days scenario."

Almost all primates eat fruit, even if it's just a little. A lack of it might be the reason why lemurs exhibit un-primate-like behavior like hibernating.

The trees want birds to disperse seeds—but sometimes kill them instead.

The vika is the subject of folk songs and nursery rhymes, but scientists had never found a real specimen before.

Proposed by design firm DFA, the 712-foot-tall timber observation structure would filter the polluted Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir while providing awe-inspiring views of the city.

Here are the top 2017 winners of Nikon’s annual Small World in Motion digital video competition.

You can catch colorful autumn colors from special observatory train cars this fall on Amtrak.

For these pups, it's achoo instead of yay or nay.

Botanical Sketchbooks, a new book by Helen and William Bynum, collects some of the best drawings of the world's flora dating back to the 15th century.

The animated show ran an episode urging kids not to be afraid of spiders. Australian parents said, "Actually … "