Animals

Culture may play a role in how birds build collectively in the Kalahari Desert

During the pandemic, researcher Daniela Rößler couldn't go out, so she started looking around her for her next research project. Then she found a really big one, and it had been right in front of her all along.

The Whip-Poor-Will’s shrill, death-proclaiming song populates the works of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. But the bird itself has fallen on hard times. Could it become a ghost of Halloweens past?

Social wasps can hold their liquor

Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern Bald Ibises to fly south for the winter

New work listens in on bird dreams

Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”

In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to eat and hang out

Looking silly when they run saves birds energy—and some dinosaurs may have done the same

Quirky perspectives, separated lovebirds and a tobogganing penguin star in 2024 winners of the world’s largest bird photography competition

Cave fish develop taste buds on their head and below their chin—and even in humans, taste cells grow in truly unexpected locations

Invasive spotted lanternflies are spreading across the metro areas of New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., despite professional and amateur attempts to reduce their numbers