A porcupine when threatened turns its rear to the predator, erects its quills and begins swinging its tail like a club.

April has officially arrived, marking the peak time for spring bird migration. After a long and cold winter, many migratory ...

A tiny Brazilian bird holds the new world record for singing loud, and we mean really loud! Like, ambulance and thunder-peal ...

"Leave the leaves” and “save the stems” teach us that gardens are habitats for pollinators and insects. How do we balance ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds – one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies – is a joy like no other. It is not surprising that bird-watching has become an increasingly popular hobby. A ...

A hunter strokes the paddle on a box call emitting a loud yelp into the predawn air. The thunderous reply has blood boiling ...

Instinct does play a role in nest-building, but so much more seems to be involved. Entwined with instinct are reason, learning, experience, insight, and perhaps even a sense of aesthetics. And when ...

In 2014, Felicity Newell joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as a doctoral student, then promptly left the country ...

A chicken egg at Neion Bio, a biotech start-up, receiving a microinjection. The company aims to to turn chicken eggs into ...

After peregrine falcon populations in the eastern U.S. were decimated by DDT, the Great Smoky Mountains played a role in ...

What happens when you turn a person into a cookie and ask them to live a normal life? If you're Maxibon, you lean all the way ...

The bald eagle couple, Jackie and Shadow, have become a viral sensation. Thanks to the 24-hour livestream provided by the ...