Animals have evolved all manner of methods to evade danger. For one lizard species living in the tropical forests of Costa Rica, their unique escape tactic involves a makeshift oxygen tank that allows ...

In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the ...

Turtles can slow their hearts down to sleep underwater. Some species of turtles can even breath through their butts!

With a GoPro and some patience, biology professor Lindsey Swierk discovered a Costa Rican Anolis lizard in 2019 deploying a bubble horn on its snout underwater. The reptile wasn’t preparing for battle ...

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Wetland plants have a high tolerance against flooding due to the formation of 'lysigenous aerenchyma,' air channels that help transfer gases to the submerged roots. These channels also help the plant ...

Becoming Cousteau, now playing in theaters, begins streaming on Disney+ November 24. “Look,” my son said. We were bobbing in the shadow of a pier on Isla Vieques in Puerto Rico. Wooden slats a few ...

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