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 ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

* Fireflies operate at near 100% efficiency, with a trace amount of heat emitted from those flashes. Incandescent bulbs emit about 10% of their energy as light, with fluorescent bulbs coming in around ...

About 32 years ago, in June 1993, Jurassic Park brought a new kind of prehistoric predators to the big screen - ones that felt astonishingly real. Combining groundbreaking CGI and animatronics, the ...

Discover the world's most amazing flightless birds—like ostriches, penguins, and emus. Learn why they can't fly and how they've adapted to thrive on land and in water.

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

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

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

Mother and Child Narrowly Escape the 'World's Most Dangerous Bird.' See Footage of the 'Close Encounter' Australian authorities urge people not to feed or interact with cassowaries, which have ...

Border collies, radar systems and weather forecasts work together behind the scenes at airports to prevent bird strikes — often before travelers ever know there was a danger.