Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

We examine the Trump administration’s approach to the wind industry.

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A blind psychic not only claimed to predict the end of humanity and the universe, but also laid out a detailed timeline of ...

Since we can’t talk to them, most folks' knowledge of animals begins and ends with some biology classes and maybe a pet, ...

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

The vulturine guinea fowl’s electric blue feathers are not pigments. Scientists reveal how microscopic structures manipulate ...

Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have, for the first time, recorded the songs of the Chinese hwamei Garrulax canorus (designated as an invasive alien species) in the alpine zone of Mt. Kisokoma in ...