If there was an official fan club for tardigrades, also known as water bears, its president would be Ana Lyons, Ph.D. She first learned about these charismatic microscopic animals on a trip to the library as a teenager, and she’s been a lifelong enthusiast of these creatures that are found in nearly every ecosystem imaginable. […]
There are over 7,000 described species of frogs, and they live in a wide variety of habitats. Some spend nearly their entire lives in the trees, and among those tree frogs, a few have evolved specialized features for gliding or parachuting between branches. For scientists like 2024 Grass Fellow Andrea “Dre” Gaede, gliding tree frogs […]
We may call them “crabs,” but horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders and scorpions than to the crustaceans they share their coastal homes with. The four species in existence today can be found along the east coasts of North America and South Asia, descendants of creatures found in the fossil record as far […]