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With Valentine’s Day upon us, it’s the perfect time to check in on how the animal kingdom is gearing up for the most romantic ...

Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards is adding two concerts to its 2026 summer music lineup in Central New York. Hot Mulligan will perform at Beak & Skiff in LaFayette, N.Y., on Friday, June 5. Special guests ...

Dark-eyed junco songbirds have been serenading the University of California, Los Angeles campus for decades as they forage for food. The species from the sparrow family is not usually found in cities.

When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los Angeles city birds responded just as quickly, with measurable shifts in beak ...

With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people came back. Reading time 3 minutes The pandemic had a noticeable impact on the ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...

A 29-year-old rescue parrot’s dramatic transformation has gone viral on TikTok, after viewers noticed the severe neglect the bird had endured. The video posted by Mulberry Acres Rescue (@mulberryacres ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. She moved slowly, as if time were something best savored. Visitors ...

Gramma, the beloved Galapagos tortoise who lived at the San Diego Zoo for nearly a century, has died on Nov. 20. She was (about) 141. The zoo's care team "made the compassionate and exceptionally ...

LOS ANGELES — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.