Emperor penguins incubate their eggs in Antarctica in winter ... with the largest animals ever to walk on land: The house finch outside your window is a tiny and beautifully adapted living ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new ...

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

A goldfinch first captured during a ringing session in England has been found 360 miles away (579km) on the west coast of Ireland. The male bird was originally ringed at the Courteenhall Estate ...

Gardeners are being encouraged to put hot sauce or tabasco on their bird feeders as most squirrels can't put up with the ...

Brilliant photographs taken in the 1970s and 1980s capture life inside Liverpool's lost Guinness factories. Dating back to 1759, Guinness is one of the most famous alcohol brands in the world.

The vampire bat might be nature’s purest super-villain. But it’s not the only flyer known to subsist off of the blood of its ...

the Sulphur-crested cockatoos and the critically endangered Yellow-crested cockatoos -- ... Nearly 30,000 Wild Species Identified in US Trade Data Jan. 9, 2025 — International research has found ...

The large yellow-footed tortoise ... The birds nest on the ground, and rats eat their eggs. Recent population estimates suggest fewer than a thousand kagu survive. Scientists nevertheless have ...