Moonlight shapes how red-necked nightjars hunt, migrate, conserve energy, and raise chicks throughout the year.

Nocturnal bull ants can use low-level moonlight to navigate at night, according to new research. The study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, is described by the editors as important ...

Like humans throughout history, it turns out that dung beetles are celestial navigators. Steering is important to dung beetles. When a choice load drops, they want to grab their ball and roll away in ...

At night on any one of hundreds of coral reefs across the tropical Pacific, larval fish just below the sea surface are gambling on their chances of survival. Our latest research shows the brightness ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Moon gardens, or arrangements of white-flowering and silver-leaved plants that seem to gleam under the ...