A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today.

On Thursday, 1995 heat wave victim and World War II veteran Emilio Aguirre received full military funeral honors in Homewood.

The Earth is full of remarkable species, and the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) is certainly one of them. This small ...

Investigation of a metre-long front flipper, uniquely preserved with fossilized soft tissues, has revealed that the giant ...

Photograph of Drs Lomax and Lindgren, together with fellow researcher Sven Sachs, examining one part of the flipper at Lund ...

The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen ...

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Birds are perhaps the most colorful group of animals, bringing a splash of color to the natural world around us every day.

If you find a bird feather – how can you tell which species it belongs to? An ornithologist in the Forensic Laboratory at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pondered this question.

Owls have inspired new noise reduction technology. The silent flight of the aerial predators is possible because their skin and feathers dampen sound by absorbing high- and low-frequency flight ...