ANIMALS

Tiki, a 5-year-old parrot, flew away from his Florida home and disappeared for days before crashing an Easter party with people who reunited him with his owner.

University of Oregon researchers found that C. elegan worms swarm to high-calorie foods when exposed to a cannabinoid molecule.

After years of careful management of harvests to allow for spawning, Virginia officials expect the largest commercial harvest of oysters in 30 years.

Scientists fastened neoprene caps wired with sensors to seals' heads and discovered that they catch 20-minute catnaps underwater when foraging for food.

Mostafa Hassanalian, an engineering professor at a New Mexico college, is using drone technology to enable taxidermied birds to fly.

A peregrine falcon has been spotted on a ledge blocks from the White House.

The idea of enlisting children armed with air rifles in an effort to kill feral cats in New Zealand set off alarm bells among animal rights groups.

Murphy, a 31-year-old bald eagle at a Missouri sanctuary, started incubating a rock last month. In early April, he bonded with a living, breathing chick.

Their habitats destroyed, the endangered Eastern tiger salamander is found only on private land east of Interstate 95. Experts are working to bring them back.

Russia’s war in Ukraine is first and foremost a human tragedy, but it has been dire for wildlife too, stalling scientific work on polar bears and other animals unaware of the borders drawn on maps by humans.

A species called the yellow crazy ant lives up to its name, with a mode of reproduction “unknown to science” until now, according to a new study in the journal Science.

A newspaper asked readers who should be the city's official animal. Thousands voted in a spirited contest that featured drama until the last votes were counted.

The eaglets, known as DC10 and DC 11, are about three weeks old and eating lots of fish at their new family nest at the arboretum in Northeast D.C.

"Uncharismatic" species would gain conservation funding under a bipartisan bill, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act. These seven critters could benefit.

While sampling beetles on a ranch owned by former California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), a UC-Berkeley entomologist found one that hadn't been documented in decades.

A package arrived from Chick-fil-A with a handwritten condolence note, some small gifts — and a framed watercolor painting of her dog, Mollie.

A new study in the journal Science is challenging some of the best-known depictions of dinosaurs in television and movies, saying the T. rex family had scaly lips covering their teeth.

At least 80 cats have reportedly been shaved by unknown strangers, leaving pet owners, particularly in the English county of Kent, worried and perplexed.