After a four-year hiatus, conservationists in New Zealand are relieved that the flightless kākāpo is once again breeding.

Evolutionarily speaking, the ultimate goal of a lifeform is to reproduce and stave off extinction. Many plants and animals ...

Finding a mate is hard in the animal kingdom! As these strangest animal mating rituals show, it sometimes gets even more ...

SHELBY COUNTY, Texas — Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), more commonly known as bird flu, has been confirmed in a commercial poultry flock in Texas for the first time this year. According to a ...

In the spring of 2023, we returned to Península Valdés, a rugged coastal region in Argentine Patagonia, expecting to witness the familiar sights and ...

Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant's novel strategy helps it spread without ...

Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry ...

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for ...

Common pollutants are disrupting energy production at the cellular level in wild seabirds, potentially affecting fitness, new ...

Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

A rare purple gallinule, native to the Deep South, was found in New Bedford during a storm. The bird was exhausted and underweight, likely blown about 1,000 miles off course by the weather. It is now ...