Researchers have discovered that massive beaks and strong bites hinder the velocity of beak movement in songbirds. The ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Get away from it all on this remote, untouched Southeast Asian island lined with white-sand beaches and surrounded by diverse and rare coral reefs.

A newly discovered giant isopod has been named after Darth Vader of Star Wars, inspired by his iconic and distinctive helmet. The 32.5 cm-long sea bug, known as a 'supergiant' was found off the coast ...

They moved under the cover of darkness, hoping to spot the hopping creatures along the slippery rocks. The researchers were conducting field surveys, studies where they collect animals in the wild and ...

And just in case silent subterfuge isn’t enough to dissuade a hungry bird, it buzzes to make its performance even ... False eyes are thought to be most effective when they have a white centre that ...

Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation. The ban was in response to the widespread environmental and economic ...

Editor’s note: This post looks back to 2012, when the accompanying image was captured on a Mexican beach, at a time when it was not widely known that adult great white sharks inhabited the Sea ...

Where did the sand go? By and large, Singapore. As Indonesian islands shrank, its tiny but rich neighbour grew. Sea sand from Indonesia and other nations has been used to expand Singapore’s land ...

The farm houses more than 100,000 birds, which will be “depopulated,” or euthanized, in response to the outbreak, health officials confirmed. “The virus at this point is not transmissible among humans ...

Another Indonesian boat has been destroyed at sea, after a crew of seven managed to haul more than 1000 kilograms of sea cucumber off Maningrida. See the dramatic pictures. On January 17 ...