One of Australia’s best-loved birds is also an important symbol in modern culture, having lent its name to a famous book, The Black Swan by scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which was in 2007 ranked by ...

By the time Holly Mactagone made it to her favorite local clothing store at 5:45 a.m. at Ohana Hale Marketplace on Black Friday, the line had already snaked around the former Sports Authority ...

Not only is the black swan important for many Aboriginal people, it was also a potent symbol within the European imagination — 1500 years before Europeans knew it existed.

The graceful black swan is a familiar sight in waterways across Australia, but it could disappear if avian flu ever takes hold here, a study of its genes reveals.