Once again, a lawmaker this year wants to dethrone the bird known for its lilting sounds. Islamorada Republican Rep. Jim Mooney’s bill would actually designate two birds in its place ...

Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to ...

Takaro Trails tour guide Anna Inglis presses pause on our ebike shore excursion near the Tukituki Estuary in Napier to point out where the short-legged wading birds roost after their long-haul ...

birds calling ] It's happening ... Affectionately known as Spots, four-legged robots like these might someday be Mars' first spelunkers. These are our two robots. We call them, very originally ...

In 2001, two determined researchers ... they’ve gone from presumed extinct to promising comeback. Conservationists can’t wait for the day when these long-legged insects reclaim the trees and hollows ...

At Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park in Gainesville, a 120-foot-deep sinkhole invites visitors to step into a world of ...

Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park in Gainesville offers breathtaking scenery that feels straight out of a fantasy film ...

The upland moa was likely drawn to the fungi because of their resemblance to berries, scientists say, allowing the creature ...

Fossilized feces—also known as “coprolites”—can shed light on “the last day or two [of] behavior ... learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed ...

Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science fiction: reviving the dodo, a bird that’s been extinct for more than ...