If you think you know everything about how animals respond to wild weather, think again. Recent findings have revealed a ...

Like most tropical houseplants, the bird’s nest fern likes average indoor temperatures between 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bird nests are sometimes intricately woven with bark and grasses and even decorated with lichen or moss. There is beauty in this architecture.

Black-capped chickadee nests work from a template of a moss bowl lined with animal fur, built inside a nest box or tree hole.

The only thing more incredible than how fast a hummingbird flaps its wings is how it builds its nest. These birds are masters of camouflage when it comes to construction. A nest is rarely found if ...

Bird nests are sometimes intricately woven with bark and grasses and even decorated with lichen or moss. There is beauty in this architecture.

Many well-constructed nests have various soft centers made of feathers, hair, bits of twine, chips of bark, dried up weeds or even fresh moss or grass. The great crested flycatcher invariably has an ...

Birds build nests out of whatever they find. Today, that includes trash.

For eastern phoebes, a single nest requires so much incubating that splitting up the effort is almost sure to fail.

Dutch doctoral student Auke-Florian Hiemstra excavated a bird nest, and made a startling discovery. From McDonald's lids to face masks, the nest was built with layers of human trash — the oldest ...

By Howard Whiteman Murray State University It was an odd place for a hummingbird nest, but there it was. I typically think ...

In colder places, birds like blackbirds use moss and feathers to keep the nest warm. In hotter areas, they use lighter materials so air can flow through and keep the eggs from overheating.