A retina built for distance The human eye has one fovea, a small pit at the centre of the retina where photoreceptor cells ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Within minutes of walking on a San Diego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after another. Some were mixed in with washed up kelp.

The mighty Andean condor – the heaviest bird of prey in the world and the raptor with the longest wingspan – needs little ...

A simple thing like poison set out to kill rodents can decimate birds of prey when they ingest the dead pests and have to be rehabilitated – if they survive. At the final Summer Reading Program at ...

At a Cretaceous lake in what is now northwestern China, paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of ancient birds ...