There are multiple benefits to making your plot more wildlife-friendly for these birds. Firstly, they can help to reduce the number of insects and rodents living in your backyard, points out Ben Team, ...

The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved ...

Jack Zhi watched as a Peregrine Falcon fledgling practiced its rudimentary hunting skills in the skies of Southern California ...

Each of us has an internal clock with our own unique sleeping patterns, otherwise known as chronotypes, coded into our DNA. People with an average chronotype go to sleep around 11 p.m. and wake up at ...

While they might not be the first birds of prey to ever evolve, their fossils are the earliest known examples of predatory ...

“Every nook and cranny and bump that occurs on a bone can tell us something about where the muscles or tendons attached and ...

By the Center for Biological Diversity The California Fish and Game Commission voted today to protect western burrowing owls ...

In western North America during the twilight of the dinosaur age, the unquestioned ruler was Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the ...

I was awakened just before 5 a.m. one morning last week by some familiar hooting in our back woods. “Who cooks for you … who cooks for you’all” was repeated ...

Michael Nickell, museum scientist at the Sibley Nature Center, said that Texas burrowing owls are unique in that they reside ...

The bald eagle was removed 17 years ago from the endangered species list, signaling the comeback of an iconic species. A new ...