If your dream holiday involves more fur, feathers, and fins than fancy cocktails, you’re not alone. Some of us travel not for ...

How did dinosaurs become birds—and what good is half a wing? Join Joe and a few brave chickens as they recreate a brilliant ...

I just returned home from an adventure in Ecuador, the highlight was two weeks on a boat exploring the Galápagos Islands. As ...

Recently refreshed from tip to toe, this elegant small ship is perfectly proportioned for Galapagos cruising, with a capacity ...

This fascinating divide is called Wallace’s Line. It’s named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who noticed the sharp difference while exploring in the 19th century.

Fox genes encode a large and ancient family of transcriptional regulators with a wide range of biological functions. This article describes the evolution of this family, its importance in ...

It didn’t take more than a few days for Peter Cook, a marine mammal sciences professor at the New College of Florida, to train Ronan to bop her head to music. Using fish as a reward, he taught her the ...

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These birds carry a toxin deadlier than cyanide. New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a source of scientific ...

Ultimately, “The Birds” is best remembered for its haunting, indelible images, like the crows slowly and inexorably gathering on a playground jungle gym behind Melanie, or the jagged jump-cuts ...