New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

Some animals have been glowing in the dark for at least 267 million years. But it's possible they've been glowing for even ...

My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nightjar, a nocturnal bird species, is a master of disguise. Their grey-brown coloring and streaked feathers help them to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first recorded sighting of a common cuckoo in New York recently created a stir in the birding community. As reported by CBS ...