Why should we read children's nonfiction animal books? Teaching kids about animals is akin to teaching colors and numbers.

With piped-in sounds and fragrant scents, the bird and fruit illustrations of ornate manuscripts spring to life at the Museum ...

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Sue Bird is making history — again. The basketball legend announced May 8 on TODAY she is the first managing director of the Team USA women’s national team. Bird won five Olympic medals during ...

The burial was discovered in the remains of a building in an ancient fishing town. Peru Ministry of Culture Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite ...

An 81-year-old Bronx woman is stuck in Puerto Rico after an airline forbade her from boarding her flight home with her emotional support parrot, according to a report. Maria Fraterrigo is in the ...

That would be a delight for Parrot Head fans and for folks like me who have never been to a Buffett concert and don’t own one of his albums but think the Islander is a welcome addition for cruisers.

“I wanted to reclaim the delight that I used to feel when I saw a cardinal show up at my bird feeder,” she says. At the time, Haizlett had recently finished her own kind of field journal: her second ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

DISPLACED. AND THIS IS NEW TONIGHT, AN EMOTIONAL SEARCH FOR A MISSING BIRD IN SACRAMENTO COUNTY. A PARROT NAMED KIKI FLEW FROM HER HOME IN CARMICHAEL ALMOST TWO WEEKS AGO. HER OWNER, LEFT ...

Budgerigars perched in a tree. Credit: Sean Kelleher / CC BY-SA 2.0 Budgerigars, small and colorful parrots, are known for their ability to mimic human speech. Scientists have now discovered that ...

When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March ...