Linguists tell us that the Anglo-Saxons gave us most of the words we use today. They provided most of the clean ones and nearly every four-letter one you use after slamming a door on your thumb or ...

Roughly one to two feet in diameter, dreys are often mistaken for the nests of large birds such as eagles and hawks ... In the Northeast, all squirrel species — grey, red, and flying — make dreys, but ...

Pigeons, scientists discovered, have impressive memories, with an uncanny ability to distinguish human faces and expressions, letters ... “Birds are under pressure to have small bodies for ...

ROBERT SCOTT: Well, no. We saw the Norwegian flag flying and realised that Amundsen ... We were just twenty kilometres from a supply depot. I left a letter for my wife. OLLIE: What did you say ...

A little over a year ago, Marcela Uhart was walking on the beach in Punta Delgada, Argentina. It was peak breeding session on this peninsula known for its rich marine wildlife. Usually, the salty ...

"We've gone from this concept of dead birds don't fly to this new virus that seems to be a bit more like dead bird flying," explains Erik Karlsson, head of the Virology Unit at the Institut Pasteur du ...