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What archeology tells us about the past is often partial, tentative, generating as many questions as answers. Yet in some cases, archeology can reveal the…

Predators arouse powerful emotions. You may hold it to be self-evident that every creature is endowed with an inalienable right to exist, or understand…

There are few recent archeological finds as awe-inspiring as the “ghost tracks” of White Sands National Park, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. These…

Finding a “potsherd” – a fragment of prehistoric pottery – is arresting, a potent reminder of the Native American past. It's always best to leave such…

The mountainous landscapes of West Texas testify to diverse aspects of the Earth's past – to the tectonic upheavals that raised the Rockies, to episodes…

How many kinds of birds eat fish, and what different methods they use to catch their slippery prey? Like Kingfishers, Ospreys spot their prey from the air and plunge in to get it, but Ospreys plunge feet first, while kingfishers go in headfirst.

To city dwellers "rat" is apt to mean the house rat. Our smaller gentle native wood rat, or pack rat is only distantly related. He approaches our idea of a "nice" animal, with larger ears and eyes, a blunter nose, hairy tail, and softer fur, lighter in color below and on the feet.

Vermilion flycatchers are found year around at stock tanks and other places with permanent water in the region, especially to the south of the Llano Estacado, but a few nest on the southern end of the plateau.

Lawns are boring and wasteful of water and fertilizer. It’s much better to have a meadow. Tradition holds that ancient and classical gardens had green plots that were sprinkled with flowers, as if the gardeners had small meadows in mind.

On Mimms Ranch outside Marfa, the Dixon Water Foundation is using some surprising tools to improve a grassland’s ability to absorb water: cattle and electric fence. How does this work?