In the wild, appearances can be deceiving, and today's story proves just that. You’d never expect a solitary anteater to face ...

The formerly endangered peregrine falcon produced a bumper crop of at least 23 juveniles this year in the Pittsburgh region.

Owen Deutsch’s and Michael Parr’s book “Birds of the Tropical Andes” is set to be released on July 8. This 264-page hardbound ...

New fossil research has revealed that squids were already dominant predators in the oceans 100 million years ago—much earlier ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...

Drone footage has captured killer whales breaking off stalks of kelp and rubbing the pieces on other orcas, a rare case of ...

The birds’ beaks held more clues about links to bird feeders. At a museum at the University of California, Berkeley, the scientists inspected the preserved bodies of roughly 400 Anna’s ...

Discoveries about evolution have long been intertwined with bird beaks. The huge variety of beak shapes among finches in the Galapagos Islands became emblematic of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural ...

“Imagine you have this unlimited, giant container of nectar that’s always available,” Alexandre says. “It makes sense to just maximize the amount of nectar you can get with every gulp.” At the same ...

An estimated 8 to 10 million metric tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans every year. As this plastic degrades into microplastics, it finds its way into the bodies of marine organisms, often ...

Finally, the team measured the beaks of 400 Anna’s hummingbirds in museum collections that span the years 1861 to 2020, to see how they had changed over time.

Along with study co-author Faye Romero, Alexandre began looking at Anna’s hummingbirds beak shapes before and after World War II — when commercial feeders for the species started to take off ...