Washingtonians have long attempted to stave off late-night hunger pangs (and preemptively thwart hangovers) with comically ...

A shared shape rule, the power cascade, governs most bird beak growth. It links modern birds with extinct dinosaurs.

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Meet the javelina, a rare tusked boar-like creature that even cougars are wary of and who are very keen on prickly pear!

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction to scribbling prose romances a lowering hobby – why not take up making ...

The northern mockingbird has done it again. Known for its ability to vocally mimic at least a dozen other species, the ...

King vultures can neglect their chicks, so hand-feeding is necessary to ensure the baby survives, the Bronx Zoo said in a statement Tuesday. But to make sure it doesn't imprint on humans, staff train ...

The love songs of these Panamanian frogs is a dinner bell for fringe-lipped bats. But how do they learn which frogs and toads ...

Sam Walsh (30 disposals), Patrick Cripps (28) and George Hewett (29) exposed the Cats’ midfield and they did so after losing ...

Fence lizards, unlike birds or large mammals, can’t travel long distances to more suitable habitat; they tend to live in the ...

NSF, founded in 1950, has a $9 billion budget that can be a lifeline for resource-strapped professors and the younger researchers they recruit to their teams. It has shifted priorities over time but ...

The Saugus Public Library celebrated Earth Day one day late with the help of Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment ...