In the summer of 1844, on a small island off the coast of Iceland, the last two great auks on Earth stood guard over their single egg. They were the only surviving members of the last colony decimated ...

Across mammal species, from baboons and gorillas up to humans, females usually live longer than the males do. However, this pattern is not universal throughout the animal kingdom. Males are the longer ...

In the wake of H is for Hawk ’s success, publishers have acquired numerous memoirs of friendships between humans and wild animals that similarly attempt to inspire empathy and, with it, conservation ...

Recent studies led by an international consortium of researchers, including scientists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and the Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de ...

I don’t have to explain why I’ve included Dan Shaughnessy among the former newspaper beat writers I’m interviewing […] ...

Many of those original homes have been torn down and the land sold off by the owners’ descendants. But Bird Cottage, located on Penobscot Bay, still stands, and three years ago its current owner, Ruth ...

Inside 12 nests, scientists found a treasure trove of interesting objects. Many came from carcasses the vultures had scavenged—86 hooves, for example, and more than 2,100 bones. There were a few dozen ...

After decades of meticulous work by conservation biologist Çağan Şekercioğlu and his team, the 'BIRDBASE' dataset has been released to the public, providing an extensive look at ecological traits ...

A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different continents.

Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining ...

A rare Connecticut warbler made a brief but notable stop at the Pleasant Valley Bird and Wild Flower Sanctuary in Lenox during recent fall migration.