joe rojas-burke

The purpose of perspiration was a mystery in 1775, when English physician Charles Brian Blagden and a few inquisitive friends experimented on themselves by spending time in rooms heated to over 230 degrees Fahrenheit.

Without hesitation, pond frogs will devour the world’s largest hornet, Vespa mandarinia.

When people are feeling happy, they’re more likely to see other people as happy.

Kayla Burgher examines a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle she has liberated from a fishing net.

Preserved in the nests of bearded vultures, researchers found a 13th century sandal, an equally ancient strip of ochre-painted sheep leather, a crossbow bolt and its wooden lance, and part of an esparto grass slingshot, among artifacts the birds gathered…

Whale sharks are the largest living fish.

I just love this finding: Ethiopian wolves appear to act as pollinators, incidentally collecting pollen on their muzzles while foraging for nectar in patches of the native perennial Kniphofia foliosa, a relative of the red hot poker plants cultivated by g…

This wonderful creature let me do close-ups.

Prairie voles, by their nature, stick with one mate for life and devotedly care for babies together.

The violence erupted in June 1943 in Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, and other places.