When you think of birds, you might imagine wings flapping silently against a blue sky. The kākāpō, however, lacks these ...

After a four-year hiatus, conservationists in New Zealand are relieved that the flightless kākāpo is once again breeding.

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The findings, published in the journal Biology Letters, showed that strangers were more likely to approach each other with ...

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

After nearly 80 years, a long-lost creature thought to have vanished from the Australian landscape has been spotted once ...

Margaret Atwood’s look back at her life and career shows readers that building and maintaining an independent mind is a full ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

From towering flightless birds to massive species capable of flight, the largest birds on Earth are truly remarkable animals.