Horseshoe Crabs Glow Under UV Light!!! Seeing in the ultraviolet spectrum is an ancient form of vision that evolved before color vision. When the Ozone was still forming UV light was much more abundant. Scientists think that because it has a higher intensity than other forms of light that the earliest photoreceptors and eyes to evolve would have used this spectrum to sense the world around them.

When the first humans set foot in the Americas, they entered a world filled with giants—mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths. But within just a few thousand years, those towering creatures vanished. Human hunting wasn’t just responsible for their extinction—it set the stage for a new ecological order. In the absence of the megafauna, one creature thrived like never before: the bison. The destruction of an ancient ecosystem gave rise to one of the most iconic wildlife spectacles on Earth—the thunderous, continent-spanning herds of bison that came to define the Great Plains.

This is the Northern Walking stick—the longest, slowest, and best-camouflaged insect in Michigan.

The tail of the luna moth is the product of a 60-million-year-old arms race to counter the echolocation of bats.

Michigan has a new predator with a deadly hunting strategy, Working together to hunt is a sign of an intelligent species