Stories by Roger S. Seymour

Some plants produce extraordinary heat when they bloom. A few even regulate their temperature within narrow limits, much as if they were warm-blooded animals

This Australian bird is one of a family that constructs mounds in which to incubate its eggs. The process requires remarkable adaptations of both egg and hatchling

This egg-laying mammal, also called the spiny anteater, has lived in relative obscurity in the Australian bush. Now secrets of its natural history and reproductive behavior are being explored