A reader sent in this heart-warming story: Volunteers in New Haven, Vermont spend long hours at night helping newts, frogs, and salamanders cross the road safely, and are even hoping to arrange construction of little underpasses for creatures to safely pass under the roadway. This is awesome. People tend to forget that these are living [...]

This toad lives in my friend’s basement, and has lived down there for years.  Sometimes we wonder if it ever gets lonely.

Summer nights in a small suburb of Tucson, Arizona, way back in 1967, out of my house would stalk a mighty hunter. Six years old, wearing shorts and a tee shirt, high-top tennis shoes, and carrying a flashlight, a bucket, and a butterfly net, I stalked off through the streets in search of prey. It [...]