The Yellow Crowned Night Heron stands out with its smooth purple gray tones, striking black and white facial pattern, and elegant yellow plumes. This distinctive bird brings a quiet elegance to ...

A single, scimitar-shaped bone pulled from the Sahara’s sand can look like anything until enough pieces assemble into an animal the size of a school bus. Paleontologists excavating a distant fossil ...

Nature is full of battles between predator and prey, but this particular encounter is anything but straightforward ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under ...

Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species in the Sahara, Spinosaurus mirabilis, that likely hunted fish in shallow rivers.

The great white heron came in fast and loud, wings half folded, pushed by a tailwind, letting out a raspy dysphonic squawk ...

Great Blue Herons demand isolation in their nesting sites, and are very sensitive to human disturbance. Nests are often found in colonies known as “heronries,” and can be anywhere from treetops like ...