Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male Humboldt penguins, are stepping up to raise a chick at Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom.

We were buoyed by the miracle of nature, that something as destructive as a hurricane could deposit something so rare and ...

Maya Angelou’s breakthrough memoir, published 50 years ago, launched a revolution in literature and social awareness. Illustration by TS Abe; Photographic reference: Corbis Outline Maya Angelou ...

Photographing birds is both challenging and rewarding. For starters, they like to move around a lot. What's more, birds aren't always in the most convenient of locations—out on a lake, high up in a ...

You need to prepare for their tricky disguises, and I'd like to help. Here are five year-round birds to start with. American Goldfinch (above) The American Goldfinch undergoes such a radical ...

The pink plane image contains a watermark for flightsim.to—a site used by flight simulation hobbyists to design virtual aircraft. Reuters could not confirm if the photo was created on the ...

Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night sky to navigate, according to a new study.

Requiring 24 hours to craft, each bird is set with 119 diamonds and a pink sapphire eye. The 36mm case dazzles with snow-set diamonds, a technique demanding 55 hours of meticulous gem-setting work.

Diamonds might be forever but that doesn’t stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has just sold for US$14 million ...

For decades, a dominant theory about why birds sing at dawn — called the "dawn chorus" — has been that they can be heard farther and more clearly at that time.