The Bald Eagle’s undeniable majesty has earned it longtime status as the mascot of the United States, but the bird also has some surprisingly quirky traits, like its dicey aerial courtship routine or ...

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery" how the bird came to nest so far north in the first place ...

Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the specimens to scientists, Paramasivam Kodeeswaran and T. T. Ajith Kumar wrote in ...

Boaters got “lucky enough” to spot a plethora of sea creatures off the coast of California, spotting multiple species in one ...

The birds have been causing problems across the region for years with 'wild flappers' particularly bad in Kirkcudbright, ...

Two dozen animal and plant species are in need of specialist support to prevent them from being wiped out in Lancashire.

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science ...

You might think that herring gulls are everywhere, and that there are too many of them. However, the species is declining ...

In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon tells us all about the herring gull.