Paul B. Johnson State Park stands as a testament to Mississippi’s hidden natural splendor, offering 1,545 acres of ...

The acorn woodpecker’s social structure, known as clans, consists of a dozen or more birds that will include breeding pairs ...

Have you ever wished you could swim like a fish? How about speak like one? In a paper recently published in the Journal of ...

Behavior can confirm the ID when color is seen only in flashes. Vermilion flycatchers often hunt from an exposed perch, ...

Forrest, a Eurasian eagle owl, has been at the Point Defiance Zoo for about two decades. Keepers estimate he could live to be 60.

Residents of West Haven, Conn., are tired of a humming noise that has become ‘excruciating’ for some. For years, they’ve heard an unwelcome vibrating noise. The West Haven City Council is trying to ...

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

In a rainforest where light arrives in shards, the harpy eagle can look almost unreal: a gray crest, dark back, and calm, ...

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the weather is cold. This new discovery was made recently by a team of soundscape ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. With some estimates placing the number of Hawaiian monk seals left in the wild at just 1 ...

When a bird spots a predator and emits an alarm call, do its neighbors think “predator” and then react? Or do they automatically freeze or fly away because that’s what they’re wired to do?

When Texas A&M University freshman Carmen Reisdorf ’27 walked into her Fundamentals of Ecology class, she expected to learn about ecosystems — not launch a research project connecting hundreds of ...