Outdoors

Mushrooms can be used to clean up oil spills, aid in brain advancement and have many medicinal uses, says outdoors columnist

For reasons that aren't easy to pinpoint, there is a soaring population of sandhill cranes in the region, which is not good news for everyone, laments columnist

Did you know turtles exercise 'butt breathing' to get enough oxygen to live throughout the winter? Outdoors columnist has all the dirt on these unique beings

Keep an eye out for these relatively rare beechdrops, which can only be found in eastern North America, notes outdoors columnist

Known as harvestmen, these critters are not spiders as they lack the fangs or venom most spiders possess and they don't build webs

Adoption of more 'acceptable common name system' has led some confusion and a lot of name calling, so to speak, says outdoors columnist

Discovery of aphids prompted research that revealed some very interesting characteristics about these unique woodland fairies

Depending on where they want to spend the winter months determines when they have to depart from our neighbourhood, says columnist

Baby snakes come equipped with a tracking program built in, explains outdoors columnist of interesting little creatures

That blob of mould is actually millions of individual cells that can join together to create multicellular reproductive structures, or not, depending on their mood