On a windy spring day in Iowa, the American goldfinch frequently darts through the gray sky with a quick burst of yellow and ...

North America is home to 17 species of finches. Two of them live year-round in the Times News region: the American goldfinch ...

People are full of surprises. And not just good ones. One person asked the internet to describe the most disturbing things they've seen in "normal" people's homes. Turns out, our neighbors, friends, ...

The landscape of cinema and television has been profoundly shaped by the contributions of African-American actresses over the ...

Cardiac rehabilitation. A surgery sent me there. We have places we go to relax. Maybe it’s that villa on the Mediterranean ...

A pair of scientific papers has identified the same single gene as the source of red colouring in birds. The gene makes an enzyme that lets the birds convert yellow pigments, which they eat, into red ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

The trend creator from Brooklyn, New York, told Newsweek: "Everyone seems to be gaining self-awareness and able to joke about ...

A possibly rare bird found near Slidell sparked wonder and debate online over whether it was a melanistic Great Blue Heron.

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

This item consists of a folder of data collected at sea by Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program staff, on the Eastern Area Cruise 18, aboard the R/V Thomas Washington, 1967. Materials include: bird ...