By Abhishyant Kidangoor When James Sheppard set out to deploy tiny backpacks fitted with satellite transmitters to track ...

One U.S. hummingbird species truly hunkers down for the winter, and that’s the Anna’s Hummingbird. In the early 1900s, they ...

In a fascinating twist, "zombie birds" are becoming a reality, but not in the way you'd expect. Researchers at the New Mexico Tech Institute have been developing robotic drones from dead birds ...

Nothing can be brought back from the dead, but to the naked eye, it looks like researchers two hours north of Las Cruces have ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...

A 59-year-old man in Mexico has died with a type of bird flu - H5N2 - never recorded in people before now. There is no risk to the wider public, say authorities, and none of the man's close ...