Less than two hours after sunrise, with the shadows still blue and slanting hard in a dense growth of balsam firs and spruces, the baby bird blundered into a fine black net strung along the ridgeline ...

New research reveals how cryptochromes, magnetite, and electromagnetic induction help animals detect magnetic cues and find ...

World Migratory Bird Day 2024 (11 May) shines a spotlight on the relationship between migratory birds and insects amidst alarming declines for both. World Migratory Bird Day is a global campaign that ...

Zebras, a children’s tale goes, became striped after “standing half in the shade and half out of it.” While the author, Rudyard Kipling, wasn’t a biologist, his story may hold some truth: research ...

For more than a decade, scientists have reported severe declines in populations of insects. We didn’t need the scientists to tell us. Anyone who remembers the numbers of bugs that used to splatter on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The pregnant sea lion was alone on a rocky shoreline in Imperial Beach. Suffering from a suspected case of domoic acid poisoning, the animal cycled through ...

If you have a hummingbird feeder in your yard, you’re probably enjoying watching the hummers sipping nectar to fuel up for their long migration south in the coming weeks. But did you know that nectar ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits to birds relying on them for food. While it awaits a ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive A veery gets ready to rise into ...