Darwin’s Rhea, a large flightless bird, roams the open grasslands of Patagonia ... Black-chested Buzzard Eagle. Photo by The Wasp Factory, via Openverse. The Black-Chested Buzzard-Eagle, with its ...

Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours hunched over looking through brush and scouring the short grass on the side of the road until he locked eyes with a creature once believed to be extinct. He ...

They found that when birds evolve from a flying ancestor to a new flightless form, the birds' bodies, including the ratio of their wings and tails, change before the feathers do. Insights from ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron.

Is a wasp more hostile or dangerous to humans than a bee? Are people who are allergic to one also allergic to the other? How can you tell them apart? These are all examples of common questions when ...

Large birds, the closest relatives of dinosaurs, have demonstrated their intelligence by solving physical challenges to access food. Scientists have now shown that emus and rheas, part of the ...

Nicola Toki is the CEO of Forest and Bird and a self-confessed "nature nerd". Each week she talks to Jesse Mulligan about an uncharismatic but lovable member of New Zealand's wildlife community. Get ...