Giving Hearts Day is a critical day to refill the coffers at the region’s many animal welfare nonprofits. And it’s coming just in time to help save the region’s only pet parrot and bird rescue. The ...

When Beauty the bald eagle was injured, though, it wasn’t her wing or leg that took the blow. Instead, a poacher’s bullet ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

It has a long pointed beak and a brain shape unlike any other Mesozoic birds ... A pair of Vegavis iaai foraging for fish and ...

Air mail delivery is an essential part of modern life. The history of this unique invention goes back farther than you might ...

The specimen’s skull made it clear that the animal had a long toothless beak and an enlarged forebrain—just like the one that ...

There are only 10 or less of this little porpoise species left in the world. What can be done to save the vaquita?