The 29th-annual Great Backyard Bird Count is set to begin Friday and extend through Monday, Feb. 16. It’s easy to participate ...

It’s tough out there for small animals. Other animals are always trying to eat them, so they have to use tactics like ...

In Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50°C, there ...

This bird lies for a living. Here’s what biological researchers have gleaned about its intelligence by observing its clever ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes ...

The idea sounded sensible at the time. Sugar plantations were losing money to rats, who were chewing through crops and ...

Animals have all sorts of funny shapes and sizes, with some not even having ears at all. Read here to learn more.

A Hereford Times Camera Club member has captured magnificent photos of one of the smallest birds of prey in the UK.

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

Starlings and blue tits, meanwhile, use scent to seek out aromatic plants such as yarrow, hogweed and elder, which they weave ...

Other near universal welfare issues among small pets — which apply to our cats and dogs, too — include monotonous and ...

Fun fact: All owls have eyes are proportionately large to their heads to increase visibility during low-light hours, but the ...