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20,000 birds just starved to death off the Dutch coast and no one knows why
Animals Birds are continuing to wash ashore and so far none of the obvious explanations can solve the mystery. Thousands of seabirds have been washing onto the Dutch shoreline for about a month now...
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Warblers live longer with a little child-rearing help from their friends
Animals Girl power in the wild. Seychelles warblers with a parental support network may age more slowly, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.
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Puffy unicorn stickers could save millions of migrating birds each year
Animals Windows pose a lethal threat to migrating birds. But humans can help. If you live in a locale with soul-crushing winters, the first breath of spring is truly revitalizing. There’s nothing...
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At the height of the Peruvian guano boom, people mined poop instead of gold
Environment Excerpt: Wild at Heart The largest reserves of marine phosphorus in the world were piled into mesas more than 150 feet high on the Chincha Islands off Peru’s southern Pacific coast. For most…
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Wind turbines do not cause cancer
Environment But other forms of energy aren't so clean. At the National Republican Congressional Committee's annual spring dinner, President Donald Trump claimed that the noise wind turbines produce...
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Two newly discovered birds are a product of Indonesia's 'evolutionary...
Animals Megapixels: White eyes, full hearts, can’t lose. Say hello to the bird world’s newest additions: the Wakatobi white-eye and the Wangi-wangi white-eye. Discovered in the Wakatobi Archipelago...
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Baby sharks are eating the birds that live in your backyard
Animals Tiger shark barf reveals sparrows and woodpeckers are on the menu. Sharks eat birds. And not just gulls and other seafaring avians, either. They consistently eat common backyard birds like...
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Birds might follow their noses home
Animals Excerpt: Supernavigators Animal navigation has been an understudied field. Scientists are currently at an impasse as to whether birds smell their way home, or have another system underlying…
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The weirdest things we learned this week: Two sleeps are better than one
Science Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts. What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to...
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This three-foot-tall parrot proves New Zealand is the mecca of giant weird birds
Animals Island gigantism strikes again. If you’re going to find fossils of a three-foot-tall parrot anywhere, it’s probably going to be in New Zealand.
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