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Devin Reese

Devin Reese is the executive editor of Natural History and a science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants

In fact, they’re some of the same plants used pharmacologically by local Indigenous people

June 25, 2026

How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison

They’re evolving faster than we can stop them

June 24, 2026

These Ancient Baby Predators Challenge Our Understanding of Evolution

The first animals onto terra firma weren’t amphibians as previously suspected

June 23, 2026

What Makes Sloths So Slow?

The two-toed sloth genome provides some definitive answers

June 12, 2026

Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth

Whale remains have accumulated in this Indian Ocean site for 5 million years

June 11, 2026

Hawaii’s False Killer Whales Are Wasting Away

Nutritional stress depresses an already threatened population

June 10, 2026

Koalas Were in Trouble Before Humans Arrived in Australia

DNA evidence points to environmental upheaval as a cause of their Late Pleistocene decline

June 9, 2026

Check Out the Newest Fluorescent Amphibian

Another terrestrial organisms glows with UV light

June 8, 2026

Check Out This New Colorful Sea Slug the Size of a Sesame Seed

There may be other micro-wonders in the waters off Taiwan as well

June 5, 2026

This Towering Fir Is the Tallest Tree in East Asia

The Indigenous people of Taiwan call it “the tree that hits the moon”

June 5, 2026