The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

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Rare, 9‑foot-tall red‑necked ostriches, sometimes nicknamed “camel birds” for their towering height and desert stride, have ...

Studying wild rock doves gives us a rare chance to establish how one of science’s model species lives in nature. This may ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

The vulturine guinea fowl’s electric blue feathers are not pigments. Scientists reveal how microscopic structures manipulate ...

Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 years after Charles Darwin visited the archipelago.

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...