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Once, not so long ago, there lived a fish in the Galapagos Islands. Its name was Azurina eupalama, the Galapagos damsel; it was not particularly different from any other small rocky reef fish.
Beside the manicured lawn at Cragmont Elementary, a Berkeley Hills school overlooking the San Francisco Bay, is a small hillside patch of tangled trees and weeds—coyote brush, sage brush, wood rose, ...
The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered ...
A yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii), one widespread native bee, comes to land on a flower. (Photo courtesy of Nathalie Bonnet) One hot day last year, Sung Lee, an East Bay beekeeper who ...