If you’ve ever practiced home canning, there’s a distinct sound every canner loves: the ping of a lid sealing to the jar.

Tony Davis Aug 3, 2024 Aug 3, 2024 Updated Sep 8, 2025 A small, iridescent, purple-tinged bird darted from Joe Siegrist’s just-unclasped hands, and quickly flew out of human view. “Ooh!” an onlooker ...

By analyzing the natural vibrations of a saguaro, scientists can study the cactus's insides without cutting them open.

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has spotted a female warbler bird hiding on a ghaf tree in one of the country’s wilderness areas, as part of its ongoing efforts to monitor biodiversity ...

Advocates want California to protect two species. Earlier this year, the Center for Biological Diversity filed petitions seeking federal endangered species protections for the same birds.

Long believed to be extinct, Australia’s night parrot has defied expectations with its rediscovery in the country’s remote interior, Australian Geographic reported. Indigenous rangers and scientists ...

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have unraveled the secret of the Namaqua sandgrouse, a desert bird capable of carrying water in its feathers to its chicks. Male sandgrouse fly long distances to ...

Environmentalists on Wednesday sought Endangered Species Act protections for a Southwestern desert-loving bird called the LeConte’s thrasher. In a petition filed with the Fish and Wildlife Service, ...

On particularly anxious nights, you might find yourself dreaming about getting chased by a fearsome dinosaur. The creature closing in on you opens its mouth wide, as if to give a terrible roar—and ...

On the walls and ceilings of his little Coral Springs house, in his bathrooms and hallways, on his bed and on his tables, South Florida’s birds keep Meir Martin company. Photographs taken by him, of ...