Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, have evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

While we often think of hummingbirds as sucking nectar from flowers, they're not sucking the way we suction juice through a ...

An obsidian stone point found at the site, with fossilized plant roots attached. (Tim White) A monumental archaeological ...

Quick Take A 436-million-year-old bony fish fossil has successfully helped researchers better understand vertebrate evolution ...

The Nature Record is the first national scientific assessment of the state of U.S. lands, rivers, coasts, and oceans, and ...

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From the bustling capital Dhaka to the remote charlands, forest edges, countrysides, and coastal belts, large deciduous trees suddenly ignite the skyline with dazzling shades of crimson, vermilion, ...

A second eaglet has died in the bald eagle nest being watched at Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. The eaglet, the third ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

A second eaglet has died at the bald eagle nest that is being observed through a livestream at the Iroquois National Wildlife ...