On May 17, and in the company of my friends Bob and Dougal, we drove to the south coast and Titchfield Haven in Hampshire were a Hudsonian godwit had been reported. It had been seen feeding with a ...

Entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the world of insects. Are cockroaches so resilient that they'd survive a nuclear war? Why do praying mantis ...

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The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

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Goetze: Our region’s woodpeckers may be praised for some things while also maligned for perceived or actual damage caused.

The birds amassed fans, as legions of devotees follow along on webcams each spring as falcons progress from hatching to ...

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It’s intoxicating, not at all theartsdesk on Vinyl ’s usual thing but achieving soaring lift-off, nonetheless. Comes in photo ...

He was one of the first chicks to arrive as part of an NPWS Reintroduction Programme to bring back this formerly extinct ...