Reports of raptors taking pets spread fast, but the baseline risk is lower than many neighborhood threads suggest. Cornell’s All About Birds notes that most dogs and cats are large enough to be safe ...

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...

The monkey-eating bird is the common nickname for the Pithecophaga jefferyi, better known as the Philippine eagle. The name ...

Avian flu has again been detected in wild birds around the Great Salt Lake, as well as in several of Utah’s counties, according to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

But all birds have high body temperatures. The chickadee’s best trick is to go into torpor every night, a brief form of hibernation that reduces their body temperature by 20 degrees, saving energy. In ...

Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to ...

White-tailed deer like those on Long Island have significantly expanded their range north into Canada in recent decades, so ...

Standing 3 feet tall with a wingspan over 6 feet, the Philippine eagle rules the rainforest skies. But why is this powerful ...

The 307-million-year-old skull, discovered in Canada, may have belonged to one of the earliest known vegetarian animals, scientists say.

Wildlife laws punish bad contact fast, because a snack or selfie can injure people, condition animals, and end with fines or jail.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago ...