Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

“We’re only now just starting to really look at some of the unique materials in bird nests,” he said. Whale Songs: Humpback whales’ complex songs share structural patterns with human ...

Commonly known as the Spice Finch, this small, seed-eating bird is a gregarious and found mostly across ... Its upper parts are rich brown, contrasting with the white and dark brown scaly pattern ...

Ringworm gets its name from the distinctive ringlike pattern the red spots often form ... Some people who are infected do develop the scaly red ring that gives the condition its name — but ...

Some of their characteristics include their external ear opening and their scaly skin which acts as their protection ... The Loon is an aquatic diving bird that lives in the freshwater lakes of North ...

Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was ...

The Tamil poet-saint Andal is identified by the parrot in her hand. The bird is the symbol of Kama, the god of love, lust and sensuality. The same god who in Buddhist works is called Mara ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

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.

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...