Chinese paddlefish are believed to now be extinct.
Imagine a turtle with a shell almost 8 feet long. This is big enough to hold a turtle weighing 2,500 pounds. You might call the huge turtle st…
It’s tough being a wild animal. In Montana, wildlife has to deal with cold, snow and a lack of food during winter. It’s only natural that we h…
When hiking in the dry lands of Eastern Montana you are likely to come across a yucca plant.
Jellyfish are odd animals. They float around in the ocean with no brain, bones, blood or heart. They have arms, called tentacles, which contai…
Some different animals look a lot alike. An example is the golden-mantled ground squirrel and the least chipmunk.
If you have ever caught a fish you may have noticed they are slimy, which can make them hard to hold for a photo.
Out of the 3,000 mosquito species known to humans only the females bite us. The blood they suck is food for their eggs, not them. Instead, mos…
Although we may think of spiders as living only on land, almost one-fifth have homes in or near water.
Chinese paddlefish are believed to now be extinct.
Ever get an itch on your back that you can’t reach? So do puffins.
There’s an idea in science that animals that live in colder places need bigger bodies to survive.
There are places around Billings where the rabbits are clearly not native cottontails. People have taken pet rabbits they bought for Easter wh…
Cellphones and the internet have made finding a girlfriend or boyfriend very different for today’s youngsters. Now they can phone or email eac…
Jeff the Nature Guy shows off the new jungle gym built for the Nigerian dwarf goats at ZooMontana.
Jeff the Nature Guy shows off Igor, a baby bull snake found at ZooMontana. Keepers are caring for the baby snake because he is blind and unabl…
Jeff the Nature Guy shows off Steve, the leopard gecko at ZooMontana.
Jeff the Nature Guy introduces some new blue poison dart frogs at ZooMontana, and explains why they aren't as dangerous as their wild relatives.
Jeff the Nature Guy shows off Harry the ball python. The snake is currently the oldest resident at ZooMontana.
Jeff the Nature Guy finds a giant osprey nest along the Yellowstone River, and talks about the magnificent fishing bird.
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Jeff the Nature Guy shows off the superworms at ZooMontana, an insect used as food for other animals at the zoo.
Right about now every year the elk mating season is in full swing in Montana. This breeding time is known as the rut. It is when male elk, cal…
Jeff the Nature Guy finds a garden centipede and talks about the cool bug and how to tell it apart from a millipede.
Male deer and elk don’t have horns, they have antlers. Antlers are different from horns because they fall off every year, and the male deer an…
Jeff the Nature Guy explores the Yellowstone River and finds stoneflies in different life stages.
Grasshoppers have invaded this summer. Las Vegas, a city in Nevada, had so many flying around its street lights that they were visible on weat…
The slinky visitor poking his head out from above a downed tree gave us a curious look as we pulled ashore in our canoe. The tiny creature was…
