In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

A photographer’s Covid-era hobby turned into a four-year project that produced around half a million photos. But one stood out from them all.

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Sophisticated birdsong follows strict grammatical rules, much like human sentences. But what happens when birds can't hear ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Biofluorescence is widespread in birds-of-paradise, a group of tropical birds famous for their spectacular courtship dances.

Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner ...

What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...

Behind US President Donald Trump’s vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive two million from their land, rights groups say, warning it could be a war crime ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...