Tour operators and stakehol­ders connected to the Caroni Swamp are rejecting suggestions that a recent multimillion-dollar ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Loons are on the mend in Maine, filling more of the state’s lakes and ponds with their haunting calls, ...

A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern ...

Short-tailed shearwaters, a bird usually found far out in the open ocean, visited the Salish Sea in record numbers this fall. Birding enthusiasts, using eBird, recorded data showing that, for a few ...

The yellow-headed Amazon parrot is now officially recognized as endangered and appears to be headed for extinction in the wild, primarily from illegal poaching. Its numbers probably are similar to ...

A Wilkes-Barre Record headline on Jan. 29, 1916. Four boys ice skating on what was called Sugar Notch swamp discovered a partially submerged headless body of a male on Dec. 12, 1915, leading to a ...

Greenville, N.Y. – In September 1991, troopers were called to a drained swamp in Orange County for a grisly discovery: a skull and other skeletal remains, some buried about a foot underground. On ...

A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said on Friday. The patient was an older adult with ...

The family arranged for a bird rescuer to pick up the endangered corn crake when the ship stopped in England Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

A family on the Princess Cruises' Sky Princess found a surprising stowaway on their vacation. According to the BBC, Charlene Halsey and her daughters found a "shivering" corn crake hiding under the ...

Pigeons can sense Earth’s magnetic field by detecting tiny electric currents in their inner ears, a team of researchers suggests. Such an inner compass could help to explain how certain animals can ...