I write about wildlife, the natural world, and public health, based on my career as an author of books like "The Species Seekers" and "Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time," and as a contributor to magazines, television documentaries, and public radio.
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Another Nature Museum Faces Death
by Richard Conniff
Diorama of the 1952 discovery of the Kansas fossil now called “The Fish Within a Fish” (Photo: FHSU)
For the second time in a month, an American university, pleading poverty, has put an important natural history mus...
Wildlife Gardening: The Extreme Version
by Richard Conniff
Sandia mcfarlandi (Photo: Bob Barber)
In the mid-1990s, I got it into my head to write a story about moths, and the people who’d lost their hearts, and possibly their minds, to them. My editor, a moth-phobic, expres...
Trump’s Deadly War on Clean Air
by Richard Conniff
More oil rigs, please, in the Permian Basin (Photo: Courtney Sacco/Odessa ,American)
Donald Trump talks endlessly about “unleashing American energy,” meaning coal, oil, and gas (but never solar or wind), as if it’s...
A Case for Wild Sexual Promiscuity
by Richard Conniff
(Photo:: Micka1734)
I’ve adapted this piece from one I wrote for National Geographic, which published it under a different headline (surprise!). This was in the thick of the pandemic, before the first COVID vaccine...
A Great Nature Museum Closes Its Doors
by Richard Conniff
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (Photo: Ajay Suresh)
NEWS UPDATE 9/26/2026:
On Friday, the William Penn Foundation made a generous offer to fund the museum for another year, to allow proper p...
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I write about behaviors of humans & other animals--anywhere from the Peruvian Amazon to the Himalayas of Bhutan--and also about public health. I write for lay readers & scientists alike, & aim to keep it insightful & entertaining for all.
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