You've probably heard of invasive plants, but what about invasive birds? These common nonnative species are now abundant in ...

Many across the world know “Swan Lake,” the most iconic of all ballets. Far fewer know just how hard the main ballerina role is to perform. As graceful and ephemeral as it appears, Odette-Odile is a ...

Birds were everywhere. Chickadees and sparrows, magpies, flickers, all of them singing and yakking away. Geese on the river, always noisy, were kicking up a cacophony. Little goldeneyes were winging ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis hit the three-week mark Friday in his hospitalization for double pneumonia, in stable condition, receiving therapy but not necessarily improving, after giving the world ...

Warmer temperatures due to climate change mean fewer wild swans are returning to the UK in winter, a charity says. Staff at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) near Slimbridge, Gloucestershire ...

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DETROIT — At what point does this current Red Wings' slide be considered a full-fledged slump? When do fans correctly become concerned? After Tuesday's 2-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes ...

The flight of the Scolopaceous Courlan is heavy and of short duration; the concavity and shortness of its wings, together with the nature of the places which it inhabits, probably rendering it slow to ...

Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET currently covering home tech. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before joining CNET, she covered ...

A family flock of Trumpeter swans drop in to Deer Parks WMA to feed ... to be arguing while all of them would be flapping their wings. It may be that they have just met some old friends that ...

Dos Rios is the newest state park in California. Which means there is a lot to discover. Located near Modesto, between the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers, this stretch of the San Joaquin Valley ...