The bumpy-faced waterfowl can be found across the United States, but in almost all cases the birds are domestic versions of ...

If something exists in nature, there is most likely a very good reason for it. While there are exceptions, many features ...

While winter is raging in an unusually large swath of the United States, the weather is balmy for the birds nesting on the ...

Yards that include mature trees and native plants are critical rest stops for the millions of birds that migrate through the ...

Or you can attempt a truce. Buy a cheap feeder, fill it with corn, and put it 10 feet away from your bird feeder. Squirrels ...

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Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave where they used the bones of prey animals rather than soft soil. The ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Rats and other rodents and pests can make great archivists. That’s because they forage food and build dens, storing fabric, paper, animal bones, plant remains and other materials ...

Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago. When you ...

Scientists once believed birds relied only on flight, talons and socialization for survival. But this one proves otherwise: it uses chemistry. For most of modern biology, there was a widely accepted ...