I saw hooded mergansers on Sugar Creek, which is outside of Troy. I knew before long we would be seeing many species of ducks. All waterfowl migrate. It is believed that most waterfowl return to mate ...

Prague Zoo has made history as the first in Europe, and second in the world to hatch critically endangered Brazilian ...

All seven regularly occurring woodpecker species can be found, but the star of the drummers is the crow-sized pileated woodpecker. Wood ducks, belted kingfishers and hooded mergansers (in season ...

Central Ohio has many spots for birds to rest, but Highbanks Metro Park seems to be a hub for our local fliers.

This bird, when cooked in the ordinary way, is about as palatable as a stewed kerosene lamp wick,” Edward Howe Forbush said in 1912 of the common merganser.

Carl says he spun around, spotted the source and immediately realized it was a hummingbird species not normally found locally. The tiny flyer stayed for about a week before moving on. Word spread ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

Hexing village of Fusong county, Jilin province, recently welcomed a group of Chinese mergansers. [Photo by Li Huaisen/For chinadaily.com.cn] With early spring temperatures rising, the Changbai ...

Hexing village of Fusong county, Jilin province, recently welcomed a group of Chinese mergansers. [Photo by Li Huaisen/For chinadaily.com.cn] With early spring temperatures rising, the Changbai ...

Among the newly identified species is a pygmy pipehorse, a 4-centimeter (1.6-inch) master of camouflage found in Sodwana Bay, off the coast of South Africa in the Indian Ocean. It is the first ...

Ocean Census, the world’s largest collaborative effort to accelerate the discovery of marine life, reveals 866 newly-found marine species A global collaborative effort led by the Nippon ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is highly likely, potentially even within our Milky Way galaxy. Join our Space ...