I'm blown away by eleven-year-old Samuel Henderson, who has an amazing ability to mimic birds. Sam lives in Oklahoma, where ...

Researchers have developed a new kind of robot that flies through the air, swims through the water, and transitions between the two realms.

Puffins are dapper little birds that spend a lot of time at sea. You can’t miss a puffin, thanks to their distinctive black and grey plumage and vibrantly colored beak. But once a year, part of that ...

Seal island, 21 miles off the coast, encompasses 65 acres and is the site of the largest puffin colony in Maine.

A family birthday trip aboard the Hardy III became a close look at puffins, terns and one of Maine’s best-known seabird restoration stories.

The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium temporarily closed the puffin habitat Tuesday while an investigation is underway into ...

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium has temporarily closed its outdoor puffin habitat while investigating the recent deaths of ...

Inspired by the physical feats of diving birds, researchers have created a robot that can plunge into the water and flap back ...

A robot that swims like a diving bird and then flies like, well, a bird, sounds like the setup for two different machines ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an animal that can make new calls.

Inspired by diving birds, roboticists built the lightweight machines to move from water to air. The design may one day lead ...

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