"All whooping cranes today are descended from only 14 adults remaining on the Texas coast in 1941", he added. Thanks to decades of legal protection, habitat restoration and cross-border collaboration, ...

Pepper the cat, whose owner works at the University of Florida, gathered a specimen containing a never-before-seen virus for ...

The Nazca lived between 100 B.C. and A.D. 800 in what scientists call a tropical desert. Yet just offshore, the sea teemed ...

A trail camera captured footage of an unexpected visitor: a Eurasian griffon vulture far outside its typical range.

This exciting find will help inform a conservation study. Scientists discover rare bird in new location for first time: 'We ...

Utah biologists invite the public to a rare, hands-on look at one of nature’s tiniest marvels Hummingbirds are on the move ...

Brown County State Park is Indiana’s largest state park and it’s easy to see why people call it the “Little Smokies.” The hills roll on forever with trees that put on a color show that would make an ...

People from all over the country stepped up to preserve a rare collection of bird eggs after the federal government pulled a ...

A pair of endangered Oriental storks was recently discovered nesting atop a high-voltage transmission tower in northern China ...

Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species ...

Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to ...

The birds were seen last week by avian ecologist Mark Cook. Flamingos were uncommon in South Florida until recently because the population was largely wiped out by hunters in the 1700s.