The show's premise is simple: Each season, conservation rangers select an albatross couple as that year's stars. A camera on the remote headland follows the chosen birds as they lay and incubate an ...

“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 ...

Albatrosses -- often mistakenly called double eagles-- are exceptionally rare, even on the PGA Tour. Since record keeping of hole-by-hole stats in 1983, there have been 142 albatrosses on the PGA ...

Accidental by catch in fishing lines and nets – when fishers unintentionally snare animals they weren’t trying to catch, like albatrosses – kills hundreds of thousands of birds and mammals ...

More than 440,000 black-browed albatrosses, the world’s largest colony, nest on steep cliffs. Along the beach below, southern rockhopper penguins call loudly. The always relentless striated ...

Albatrosses, the largest birds able to achieve sustained flight, can soar thousands of kilometers through horrendous winds, all without flapping their wings. “It’s quite impressive to see—even with ...

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2. Albatrosses can travel at speeds of up to 140km/h. 3. They are so efficient in their flying technique that they spend more energy in landing and take-off than in flying. 4. The wandering ...

Australian researchers have created a new detailed map of Antarctica ice-free land that they say will help protect the continent biodiversity The tea ...