EditorialMyopotamus coypus, Print, The coypu, also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent. Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Myocastor is actually nested within Echimyidae, the family of the spi...
EditorialDidemnum gelatinosum, Print, Didemnum is a genus of colonial tunicates in the family Didemnidae. It is the most speciose genus in the didemnid family.Species in this genus often have small calcareous spicules embedded in the tunic and form irregular or...
EditorialGrapsus sanguineus, Print, Hemigrapsus sanguineus, the Japanese shore crab or Asian shore crab, is a species of crab from East Asia. It has been introduced to several other shores, and is now an invasive species in North America and Europe.
EditorialMyopotamus coypus, Print, The coypu, also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent. Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Myocastor is actually nested within Echimyidae, the family of the spi...
EditorialJames Comey, director of the FBI, testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 8, 2015. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialJames Comey, director of the FBI, testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 8, 2015. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialSmoke from a wildfire over the Klamath National Forest in northern California on Aug. 16, 2022. Les Knight says he has begun to see humans as the most destructive of invasive species. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)
EditorialChaya Rothschild, an andrologist at Maze Health, extracts sperm from an ejaculate sample in a process called extended sperm search and microfreeze in New York, Sept. 28, 2022. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialChaya Rothschild, an andrologist at Maze Health, extracts sperm from an ejaculate sample in a process called extended sperm search and microfreeze in New York, Sept. 28, 2022. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialA researcher holds the invasive Succinea putris snail, which competes with the Chittenango ovate amber snails for resources at Chittenango Falls State Park, in Cazenovia, in central New York, Aug. 25, 2022. (Jessica Suarez/The New York Times)
EditorialA dead spotted lanternfly, an invasive pest from Asia that arrived in the United States seven years ago and in New York City last year, in Manhattan, Sept. 14, 2021. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)