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Some animals can sleep with just half their brain at a time. Understanding this phenomenon can help us learn more about human ...

The ring-necked parakeet, with its vibrant green plumage and unmistakable squawk, has become an increasingly familiar sight ...

Bright green parakeets are popping up across Derby — and locals are spotting them in places you’d never expect. See our full gallery below.

BRITS are bracing for Storm Goretti to hit as weather warnings for snow and ice cover swathes of the UK. Temperatures plunged ...

Grocery stores, reinvented airport spaces and an obsession with period dramas—we've rounded up the travel experts and editors to share how they're seeing travel shift for the year ahead ...

This medium-sized owl is indeed quite scarce, normally detected by a haunting, wavering hoot that emanates from the deepest, darkest corners of woods. Its owlets, meanwhile, are renowned for their ...

Birds are aflutter with activity all day long so they certainly need to rest at night – but where do they go? Other than owls ...

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The ...

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the ...

According to co-author Brenton Cooper, a neuroscientist who studies speech and language, cowbirds briefly hold their breath ...

The UK’s tallest bird towers at an impressive 1.2 meters. Known as the common crane, Grus grus, their numbers have benefited ...