Scientists were surprised to discover cassowaries glow under ultraviolet light. It may help the birds distinguish between ...

It started with a set of photographs, taken of an animal captured in 2015 on the Bird’s Head Peninsula in Indonesian Papua, ...

Worldwide, people buy and hunt nearly half of the 11,000 bird species in existence. In Asia, Europe, and North and South ...

A new study shows that fan-tailed ravens living near the Dead Sea are more likely to die when they spend time around humans.

A new study reveals how ravens' behavior impacts their survival. Risk-prone birds face higher mortality due to human ...

This tiny frog in the world lives in the leaf litter of Papua New Guinea's rainforests and can jump over 30 times its body ...

Andy heads to Papua New Guinea to record the sounds of the superb bird of paradise.

The Smithsonian opened the MSC in 1983 to ease overcrowding at the natural history museum’s main building on the National ...

Across the world, scientists have identified over 1.5 million living animal species. One of the perks of being a field ...

Dogs are found almost everywhere people live, yet many breeds remain unfamiliar even to devoted dog lovers. More than 200 ...

For 300 years explorers and naturalists have reported another kind of firefly behavior, seen in the region stretching from ...