A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.

In a cute first, a curious observation led to a sweet and thrilling discovery of a caterpillar-like hummingbird with hairs ...

A painting in Blair Hobbs’s new exhibition features a cut-out drawing of Flannery O’Connor in a pearl choker and purple ...

Female White-necked Jacobin with male-like plumage on her nest incubating her eggs. Newly hatched White-necked Jacobin chick. Notice its dorsal fluffy down feathers. Newly hatched White-necked Jacobin ...

Newly hatched White-necked Jacobin chick. Notice its dorsal fluffy down feathers. Caterpillar of the family Megalopygidae, known for its hurticating hairs that can cause painful reactions when touched ...

Hummingbird chicks pretend to be a caterpillar to avoid being eaten, reveals new research. The tiny birds, smaller than a ...

A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...

I think this kind of imagination is important. It is incredibly humbling to be forced to reckon with the immensely long ...

A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

The male and female northern harriers sat near each other on a wire. The male was slate gray while the female was a more ...

Ed Gorman’s childhood spent on the family farm north of Yuma and a career in small game management provided the nexus for ...