The Pelagornis belonged to the family Pelagornithidae. These birds existed from the Late Paleocene age to the Late Pliocene ...

A recent revolutionary study reveals how mice have evolved in an incredible way. They can ‘hear’ through their whiskers. The ...

Mosquitoes are among the most irritating pests. In addition to their annoying bites, which can leave you very itchy, some are ...

Columnist Shannon Brennan writes that bluebird chicks generally fledge 16 to 21 days after hatching, but they don't want to take flight too soon.

Birds were sucked into both engines of a FedEx cargo plane that made a fiery landing in March at Newark Liberty International ...

When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ...

Two recent scientific studies estimate that billions of birds die from collisions with sheet glass each year in the U.S. alone.

Jackson researchers had been attempting to trap the male barred owl for more than a week, but the wary raptor was proving elusive. First, the owl swooped in for the ...

When these crucial pollinating species visit flowers and other plants, they produce a number of characteristic sounds, such ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

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I never dreamed I’d be writing two columns about cicadas in less than a year, but here we are.