The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...

After first appearing in birds in Argentina in February of 2023, a "highly pathogenic" strain of H5N1 was spotted in infected ...

The macaroni has the widest range, covering both the South Atlantic and Indian oceans, while the Snares only breeds on the ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived ... perhaps even expanding further west into the southern Great Lakes ...

Across the globe great animal gatherings are taking place that make the footfall at a Taylor Swift concert look like a kid’s ...

FISH-EATING spiders the size of human hands are on the loose in Britain – here’s a map revealing where colonies are lurking.

The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is very critical of the false myths ...

It’s more than 100 feet long, at least 300 years old and visible from space. The world’s largest coral has just been ...

THIS FIERCE PEOPLE. By Alan Pell Crawford. Knopf. 400 pages. $32.50. One way to approach Alan Pell Crawford’s “This Fierce People” is to accept it for what it is — a potboiler from a ...

Southern and eastern yellow jacket queens produce all caste members in the colony, and while mated queens from both species hibernate in the winter following the decline of their colonies ...

I am an absolute sucker for a handsome reproduction of a rare and highly illustrated natural history, preferably more than ...