Aigul Akhmetshina, performing now at the Met, shares her thoughts on what it takes to bring the famous Habanera to life.

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

On the brink of extinction, just several hundred Hirola antelopes persist in Kenya, with a local leader spearheading their ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

The Henry Pigott house on Portsmouth Island. Photo by Sara Hassatt By Peter Vankevich The Portsmouth Island Christmas Bird Count took place this year after having been canceled in 2023 and 2024 ...

What may be the world's longest continuous annual breeding bird survey can reveal some interesting population trends for Grey ...

A blue-gray gnatcatcher flits from branch to branch. Greg Miller, Jon Dunn and Bettina Eastman led a birding stroll on the ...

Just before Paul Lambert could start yard work before a December snowstorm, a surprise visitor arrived for a snack. A large group, or earful, of cedar waxwings settled on Lambert’s crabapple trees and ...

Academy researchers identified 72 species new to science in 2025, including the newly recognized Galápagos lava heron, a shy deep-sea fish, and a rare sunflower relative found in a U.S. national park.

Mandarin ducks are painted in a rainbow of colors. Their coloration looks like something out of a Disney fairytale, yet they ...

A great blue heron became entangled in fishing line and was left hanging in trees in Brevard County until a passerby stepped ...

Take a closer look at that long-legged heron — it might be a tricolored heron! Here's where to find these birds, and how to identify them.