Although the southbound migration has mostly over, one new species for the season showed up this week: alcids black and white seabirds, the northern version of penguins.

They are naughty and nice. Before Santa’s helpers, Elf on a Shelf and Will Ferrell, there were woodland creatures real and imagined. 

Friday, December 26, the crescent moon appears really close to the bright planet Saturn.

The state designated a grant last week to look at the possible removal of the Mill Pond dam in West Tisbury.

We've got the last meteor shower of the year taking place in our night sky on Sunday night into Monday morning before dawn.

James Henry Emerton drew a lot from his studies of spiders. An entomological illustrator, or self-proclaimed “zoological and botanical draughtsman,” Emerton was a learned local who made a name for himself in arachnology.