Instead, we were met with an eerie silence and a devastating sight: beaches once bustling with thousands of seals were littered with hundreds of dead pups and adults. The usual cacophony had been ...

Fifty years ago, William & Mary students helped reintroduce breeding pairs of peregrine falcons on the coast and in the ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep.

Travis Audubon shares Central Texas’ January bird forecast highlighting one of our most vocal year-round birds, the Carolina ...

Some animals form lifelong pair bonds that run deeper than simple mating. These connections shape how they live, move, and ...

Plus, pocket-sized owls hooting, few family reunions in the bird world and a visit by robins’ handsome cousin.

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

Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations.

Female wild turkeys exposed to heavy hunting pressure tend to hatch more daughters, a response that could reshape flock ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...

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 ...