Out in the Pacific Ocean, 620 miles off the coast of Ecuador, lies a chain of volcanic islands that harbor some of the most ...

A global update on surviving PBY Catalinas in 2024–2025, highlighting restoration progress, museum transfers, and ongoing ...

Predicting this South Pacific seabird’s appearance in the state was utterly absurd – there had never been a Juan Fernandez ...

I assumed that they were just part of the bird diversity there,” he said. Then a local birdwatcher told him that lesser ...

A bird species native to Australia and the Pacific region has been officially recorded for the first time in the Philippines, following its discovery on Lawak Island in Palawan during a government ...

The bird is seen in murals around town and locals sometimes wear magpie costumes for Halloween. Elly Knight, an avian ecologist with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, says that’s why it ...

Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated US territory and Pacific island wildlife refuge with a complicated military history, is no longer slated to become a SpaceX reusable rocket test site.

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this week in ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this week in ...

But it could be too much for the island's 14 species of tropical birds to withstand, according to biologists and experts who have worked on the one-square-mile (2.6 square km) atoll, part of the ...

The data revealed that frigate birds sleep for approximately 42 minutes per day while flying, dramatically less than the 12 hours they sleep while on land. Moreover, these birds typically sleep in ...