The platypus is so bizarre that it famously led early European scientists to suspect someone had stitched it together from ...

There's a cliff in China that gives birth to stones. Every few decades, enormous stone "eggs" emerge from the rock and fall ...

When people talk about the UK’s best bird songs they often go straight for the big names – loud, dramatic performers that ...

Four candidates vying to lead the United Nations have spent hours being grilled about their views on issues from restoring ...

Well, the flowers know that it is spring, the longtails, starlings and bluebirds all know that it is spring, even the ...

Val Cunningham regularly answers reader questions about birds and birding. Submit your own questions below. Can birds see color? When they look at other birds, do they see them in color, like we do?

IT’S a truly beautiful sight – a clutch of nine blue tit eggs in a warm nest.

From the start, cars were built wrong. At least, that’s what Chrysler’s head of automotive research, Carl Breer, thought in ...