You may wonder which came first, the Kiwi (fruit), the Kiwi (people), or the Kiwi (bird). Although a much-loved subtropical ...

A 'heartbroken' woman is offering a cash reward for the safe return of her parrot who went missing from her home near Cowley Road in Oxford ...

European starlings were the best at imitating R2-D2's multphonic sounds because they can control both sides of both sides of the syrinx independently, the researchers say. Pexels Birds have shown the ...

We were actually lucky to see the sun – facing the full brunt of the winds from the Tasman Sea, it rains over 250 days a year here at Milford Sound. But thanks to the morning rain, the vertiginous ...

It may sound like a simple - and simply dull - statement of fact, the kind of thing that people refer to as a 'passing comment' or deploy as 'filler' to fix a dreaded awkward silence. But, while it ...

When scientists played R2-D2’s famous bleeps and whistles for a group of birds, they weren’t expecting a concert — but that’s exactly what they got. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and ...

If your digestive system's been a bit sluggish, scientists have found some new solutions — including a fruit you might already have at home. Researchers in the United Kingdom recently published new ...

A New Zealand driver came to a halt as a rare creature crossed the road in front of him, a video shows. Screengrab from Campbell Hutchings' video shared by the New Zealand Department of Conservation ...