This is the heartwarming moment wildlife staff returned a fallen owlet into its nest using a cherry picker. National Parks ...

Imagine an ear trumpet for a face, which picks up sound waves over a wider area. Artist’s impression of the Itombwe owl. The bird was not seen in life at the time of the painting.

IT'S A HOOT You have the eyes of a hawk if you spot an owl hiding in the tree in under 10 seconds in this wild optical illusion Callie Patteson Published: 12:28, 4 Nov 2023 Updated: 13:24, 4 Nov 2023 ...

Their skull bones hold those bell-shaped eyes into their heads with no space to move. To look around, an owl turns its whole head. The internal structure of an owl eye is special, too.

If the only sport you really like is wordplay, you might want to sidestep the Super Bowl for the Superb Owl. Reddit created the meme in 2014 to get around the NFL’s Super Bowl trademark, but it ...

Big Eyes and Long Inner Ears Helped This Tiny, Owl-Like Dinosaur Hunt at Night The chicken-sized Shuvuuia dinosaur had a fragile, birdlike skull, one-clawed hands and long skinny legs ...

Owl-like Shuvuuia (shu-VU-ya) was a theropod — a three-toed and bipedal carnivorous dinosaur. There's only one known species, Shuvuuia deserti, and it was smaller than a domestic cat, measuring ...

Fossilised Shuvuuia deserti skeleton A tiny bird-like dinosaur with long legs and muscular, clawed arms was quite the night owl. Shuvuuia deserti lived around 75 to 81 million years ago and not ...

Perched high in the forest canopy, fish owl pairs perform a four-note duet of synchronized calls that can last up to two hours. These raptors, known for their intense yellow eyes and showy ear ...

It's an owl eyeball, seen through the unusually large ear opening in a northern saw-whet owl's head.(Image credit: Photo courtesy of Jim McCormac) Some say that eyes are the windows to the soul.

Studies of owl brains have shown that the medulla, the area in the brain associated with hearing, is much more complex than in other birds. Tyto owls have a further refinement to improve hearing. The ...

The owl has physically changed from his long-ago ancestors, in many ways, to fill their special niche of darkness. We’ll start with the eyes. A hawk is nearly as blind as you and I during the ...