Switzerland’s new regulation represents a massive experiment in pushing back against this inclination, forcing people to ...

Let's admire the beauty of birds with unique and strange appearances, as if they have traveled to Earth from another world.

Gary Larson’s The Far Side may be best known for its humor, but on more than one occasion, Larson has delivered surprisingly ...

We were buoyed by the miracle of nature, that something as destructive as a hurricane could deposit something so rare and ...

The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Here are some of the commonest clues to find, and when and where you might spot them… Soft mud, fresh snow and damp sand all capture the press of paw, hoof and claw as animals go about their lives.

Ruddy Ducks are one of our most colorful and interesting waterfowl species. The males are very easy to identify by their stiff tails, bright blue bills and gleaming chestnut bodies. The females are ...

According to Science News, a team of paleontologists has just discovered a 67 million-year-old skull of a chicken-duck hybrid believed to be the oldest modern bird fossil yet known. It is also the ...

A new study suggests the use and prevalence of hummingbird feeders — like those red and clear plastic ones filled with homemade sugar water — changed the size and shape of the birds' beaks.

There is a moment that stands out vividly in my early days as a duck hunter. One sunny morning on a hunt with friends in California’s Sacramento Valley, hiding in bulrush as a flock of ducks came in, ...