The real call of a loon is one of the most haunting and beautiful sounds in nature. Echoing across the water, it creates a ...

If you hear that "drip, drip, drip," you know that spring has started to arrive. Keep on the lookout for that tournament-weekend blizzard, though.

Daily ferry service is soon returning to Ontario’s Pelee Island, Canada’s southernmost inhabited point. Discover some of the ...

New research reveals why the endangered birds remain at risk years after California banned lead ammunition. Exclusive to KQED.

Ely, Minnesota, home to about 3,300 hardy souls and the International Wolf Center, invites you to find out the answer in ...

Sometimes the best adventures are the ones hiding in plain sight, and Lake Bemidji State Park in Bemidji, Minnesota is proof ...

After local officials nuked public trust by signing NDAs, a grassroots movement emerged to stop the tech giant’s sprawling, ...

Humans and animals like the same sounds, new research reveals, proving Charles Darwin correct. The findings show that people showed preferences for calls that other species find the most attractive.

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns – from the iridescent plumage of many hummingbirds to ...

The song is that of a humpback whale and was recorded by scientists in March 1949 in Bermuda, researchers said.

In Central Illinois, once a year, the sky comes alive as millions of snow geese descend on a place most people have never heard of. The small town of Havana, Illinois, is a place where most shop close ...

Photograph of three male zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis), whose mating calls were used as part of the study. Credit: Raina Fan. The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers ...