To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

Local 10’s Eco Hero team left the red sands of the Outback behind and entered one of the world’s oldest living ecosystems — the Daintree Rainforest — uncovering a landscape teeming with ...

Yamaguchi was doing a three-month job in Hiroshima when he headed to work late that fateful day (delayed by forgetting his ID ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

Along with Colossal Biosciences, the filmmaker is joining an indigenous-centered partnership to resurrect the 12-foot-tall ...

Weighing less than a golf ball and merely six inches in length, the Inaccessible Island rail is the world's smallest flightless bird.

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Many birds fly, but some, like penguins and ostriches, don't, revealing an evolutionary twist. Flightless birds adapted to ...

Along a road that cuts through Bioko Island’s dense rainforest, they found what they were looking for — Pterotiltus bioko, a new species of flightless grasshopper, according to a study ...

From pollinating plants to dispersing seeds, birds play a variety of crucial roles that help to keep ecosystems in balance. But when we degrade and fragment their habitats, some species disappear much ...