A snapshot of blacktip reef sharks hunting hardyhead silverside fish won the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In pursuit of the world’s smallest bird, we’ve come to the backyard of a flamingo pink house in Palpite, Cuba.

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Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

Art and science can be aligned in different ways. We describe one use of art as a tool: using ambiguity to evoke curiosity.

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...

The fossil is described in a study published February 5 in the journal Nature and shows that the continent was a key location in bird evolution ... Laura is a science news writer, covering ...