Frogs leapt before they landed
Amphibians learned to jump first, then mastered the touchdown

Gut first
Crawling caterpillars move their insides forward before their outsides, X-rays reveal

Mangroves do a coast good
Intact swaths of trees reduce tsunami damage, a new study suggests

Methane releases in arctic seas could wreak devastation
Potential impacts include dead zones, acidification, shifts at the base of the ocean's food chain

Bats, wolves feel the heat
News from the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Laramie, Wyo., June 11-15

Science & the Public: Citation inflation
The gold standard for assessing journal quality -- the impact factor -- is proving vulnerable to subtle biases

Parasite brood gets help from nearby microbes
Study suggests new way to battle common intestinal infection

Sharks use math to hunt
Marine predators cruise the seas using fractal principles

Honeybee death mystery deepens
Colony collapse disorder linked to mix of fungal and viral infections

Cads of the savanna
Male topi antelopes lie to get the ladies

Science & the Public: Spill update: From booms to dispersants
Ecosystem effects remain muted as control technologies are released in force

Deleted Scenes: Forests on the wane
Early last decade, the world's tree coverage dropped by more than 3 percent

Pigeons usually let best navigator take the lead
But other birds sometimes get a turn at the helm

On the Scene: Athlete's foot therapy tapped to treat bat-killing fungus
Hibernating bats treated in several New York mines.

Iron fertilization in ocean nourishes toxic algae
Carbon sequestration efforts could trigger harmful algal blooms