Up Close and Personal with the Albatross In literature, albatrosses represent weighty, inescapable burdens. But in real life, the huge seabirds use wind energy to cruise around the planet's oceans.

She may be no spring chicken at 75 years old — and may be even older, conservationists believe — but this Laysan albatross is the world’s oldest known bird to hatch a healthy chick.