Discover which woodpeckers mate for life, and which pair up and then split up. Also learn how long pileated woodpeckers live.

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Animals, though wordless, communicate complex messages through body language, sounds, scents, touch, and color changes. From ...

The East River’s “Swan Lake” story has ended in tragedy. A rock-wielding, real-life “Rothbart” is believed to have ruthlessly ...

Wondering what owling is? Discover when to go, where to look, which owls you might see, and how to enjoy owling the right way.

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Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...

Winter has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. With today’s winter solstice, the days will start to get a little bit longer, but the cold will stick around. We humans typically handle the ...

On a chaotic deadline day, Finnbar Maley balanced a shock trade to Adelaide with submitting a crucial uni assessment just minutes before it was due ...

The longer I spend in Madagascar, the harder I find it to keep my bearings, stick to the matter-of-factness of global ...

The Everglades is the largest stretch of undeveloped land in the easter U.S., and the area is literally crawling with beasts of all sorts, sizes ...

A cherished Queens swan was fatally injured in a suspected rock attack, leaving his lifelong mate Odette missing from Hallett's Cove and animal carers deeply worried.