After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small songbirds mid-air—more than a kilometer above ground. Using tiny ...

I am remembering now the Sunday afternoons of my 1960s childhood, after my wiggling self has been set free from church and from the interminability of Sunday dinner, after the leftovers have been ...

There was but though the water was wide open and a darker blue than the sky overhead, there was not a bird in sight. Well, on ...

A man in Alaska stopped in mid-oil change to grab a handful of nuts to feed his little bird friend, a Steller's jay.

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

Saoirse Ronan and Tom Holland's "compelling" British drama will be airing on TV tonight. Adapted from Meg Rosoff's novel of the same name, How I Live Now follows American teenager Daisy who is sent to ...

View of Connecticut River from Haddam, Connecticut - Jeremy Dunham/Getty Images The Connecticut River, New England's longest ...

Small, battery-powered planes are on the way. But building large, zero-emission airliners is a daunting challenge.

Brian Schottenheimer has had to endure some unexpected developments during his first season as head coach of the Cowboys.

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

After a career spent prosecuting organized crime, Barbara Miller ’75 is spending her retirement rescuing wild animals.

The weirdest-looking moths on Earth are so strange, they look like they flew straight out of a vivid dream — or a nightmare.