Five animals that have evolved to cope with wildfires

A beetle that can sense infrared light. A bird that lays eggs the color of charred ground. A woodpecker that specializes in hunting in burned bark.

Animals have long learned to live alongside wildfires, but those coping skills are being tested as Earth enters the Pyrocene, a new era of unprecedented conflagrations like those this summer in Canada that have stained the skies orange and sent suffocating plumes of smoke over American cities.