In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

Robert Irwin is ruffling some feathers as he ranks birds based on who has the most rizz (or cool points for non-Gen Z readers ...

Researchers suspect that dark-eyed juncos living in Los Angeles adapted based on the availability of food scraps tossed by ...

In small island states, conservation has often depended less on formal institutions than on vigilance: watching harbors, ...

A living database reveals why the global count of mammal species keeps changing - and why accurate naming matters for ...

High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...