On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning the ground for something most people would never notice. Somewhere under the ...

Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...

NOW, SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ARE WORKING TO FIND OUT WHY. LET’S CHECK IN WITH OUR METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN. SHE’S HERE WITH US LIVE. SO, HEATHER, SCIENTISTS HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT’S ...