The species can only be found in parts of Northern and Central California. It was hit hard by the West Nile Virus in the ...

In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song. In one, ...

Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, has been in love with foie gras ...

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of swans, geese, cranes and other waterfowl descend on a Montana lake on their way to the Arctic. A small town festival draws thousands of bird fans.

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I’ve heard that a single ostrich egg is big enough to make an omelette for a whole family. —Anonymous, N.Y.C. Eight years ago ...

The words "adorable" and "cute" can refer to just about all of our pets, but only some earn a descriptor like "enchanting" ...