House mice (Mus musculus) – the same kind that may be in your residence – have started to attack and kill albatrosses, eating them alive as they sit on their nests. I’m an ecologist who’s been ...

The world’s oldest known wild bird, 74, makes an annual pilgrimage to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. But each ...

Can animals feel love and romance? It might seem like a uniquely human experience, but the natural world is filled with ...

The albatross is one of nature's most impressive flyers, soaring effortlessly over the ocean for days or weeks at a time, often without flapping its wings for hours. These majestic seabirds are built ...

“By contrast our study found jellyfish are a common prey of black-browed albatrosses and the closely related Campbell albatross. “While there was a large variation between breeding ...

Laysan albatrosses mate for life and lay one egg per year, but according to the USFWS, Akeakamai hadn't been seen for several years, prompting "Wisdom to begin courtship dances with other males ...

Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird, has laid her 60th egg at the age of 74. This marks her first egg in four years, ...

Adult albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) courting at Bird Island, South Georgia. Over half of wandering albatrosses breeding on Bird Island, South Georgia, in the sub-Antarctic, encounter fishing ...

KEKAHA — Robby Kohley shone a light against the avocado-sized bird egg, illuminating its hidden contents. An embryo inside resembled a large, red spider with legs that stretched in every direction.

Wandering albatrosses – which have the longest wingspan of any birds alive today – are thought to be especially vulnerable. Nesting on the barren islands of South Georgia, they feed their ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Pacific region says Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird, has returned to Midway ...

Wisdom and her mate, Akeakamai, had returned to the atoll in the Pacific Ocean to lay and hatch eggs since 2006. Laysan ...