Although there was no evidence that it preyed on the tiny humans, scientists believe that it may well have dined on juvenile hobbits. Bones of the stork, called Leptoptilos robustus, were ...

Birds of a feather usually flock together, but a lucky blackbird was adopted by a mistle thrush that fed the juvenile in rare gesture.

A giant stork would have soared through the skies of prehistoric Indonesia. Measuring almost two metres tall, Leptoptilos robustus would have lived in a unique ecosystem which included the mysterious ...

“But we wanted to learn more about how migration is refined and developed over the stork’s lifetime ... Aikens and her colleagues captured 258 juvenile white storks at five breeding ...

At more than five feet tall, the Ice Age stork Leptoptilos robustus would have towered over the three-foot-tall Homo floresiensis, who lived more than 60,000 years ago. Paleontologists previously ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction in 1984, has recovered sufficiently in Florida and other Southern states that U.S. wildlife ...