Outdoors

Mice are a huge part of many food chains, notes outdoors columnist who explains that the majority of mice stay outside - despite what you might hear at midnight

For reasons that aren't easy to pinpoint, there is a soaring population of sandhill cranes in the region, which is not good news for everyone, laments columnist

Did you know turtles exercise 'butt breathing' to get enough oxygen to live throughout the winter? Outdoors columnist has all the dirt on these unique beings

Keep an eye out for these relatively rare beechdrops, which can only be found in eastern North America, notes outdoors columnist

Known as harvestmen, these critters are not spiders as they lack the fangs or venom most spiders possess and they don't build webs

Weather forecasters have a tendency to accentuate the mundane or embellish the boring until it becomes quite exciting, laments columnist

Baby snakes come equipped with a tracking program built in, explains outdoors columnist of interesting little creatures

That blob of mould is actually millions of individual cells that can join together to create multicellular reproductive structures, or not, depending on their mood