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Deep within a quiet forest, a motion-activated wildlife camera captured a remarkable encounter between two of nature's most ...

Pygmy falcons were once too small to be tracked via GPS. New technology has changed this, providing insight into the raptors' ...

New research shows that hawks make clever adjustments to their flying techniques as they land on perches when in molt.

They may look like spiders, but daddy longlegs belong to a different group of arachnids entirely. Here's why they're more ...

Elmwood Park Zoo is proof that sometimes the best experiences come in unexpectedly perfect packages, and this place has been ...

The butcher bird is one of nature’s most bizarre contradictions: a small, beautiful songbird with an elegant voice and a ...

Unlike the tearing force of many animals’ claws, the terrifying power of a smasher shrimp’s club-like claws comes in lashing ...

A light poke is sometimes enough to make an insect collapse into complete stillness. Legs fold in, movement stops, and, for a few moments or even much longer, the animal appears lifeless.

Is that one there?” Kaggie Orrick, a National Geographic Explorer and conservation scientist, asks from the passenger’s seat ...

To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghel’s paintings teem with ...

The US slapped a bald eagle on its official seal back in 1782. Did we pick the right mascot? With 250 years of perspective, ...