With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

Explore the world’s fastest birds of prey, from falcons to eagles, and learn how extreme speed and high-velocity make them ...

The great raft spider, one of Europe’s largest native spiders, has made an extraordinary comeback after being on the brink of extinction.

The Stifel Birds of Prey Alpine skiing World Cup at Beaver Creek, Colorado, airs on NBC Sports and Peacock this weekend. The Beaver Creek World Cup includes men’s downhill, super-G and giant slalom ...

European starlings were the best at imitating R2-D2's multphonic sounds because they can control both sides of both sides of the syrinx independently, the researchers say. Pexels Birds have shown the ...

It’s a birdie he won’t ever forget. Bird lovers are flocking to a Long Island golf course to see the biggest star to hit the links here since the Ryder Cup — after a golfer spotted a rare cuckoo bird, ...

A new optical illusion trend has taken over TikTok, and it’s making people laugh. The so-called “bird arm trend” shows people perched on their partner’s arms, mimicking a bird mid-rest while their ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats ...

During a recent talk I mentioned the three questions I hear most often: What’s the rarest bird you’ve ever seen? What binoculars should I buy? And, How did you get into birding? Today I’m going to ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring,” says ...