You have to give them that, our rats of the sky. For if you pause for a moment to admire a sea gull, hovering effortlessly on ...

How do you get people excited about birds? Apparently the answer hasn't changed all that much in more than a century.

The spotting of a shape at sea like a bear and the mathematical sign pi turns out to be a mirage.

Fireflies Are Lighting Up the Night Sky in Unusual Numbers This Summer for a Beautiful Reason ...

The lowly blowfly is known for feasting on feces and corpses. One intrepid researcher hopes to use them as a biological ...

The French biplane l’Oiseau Blanc left Paris on May 8, 1927—12 days before Charles Lindbergh’s famous Spirit of St. Louis ...

For a few weeks every summer, the Smokies synchronous firefly produces dazzling coordinated displays that light up the night ...