Flightless cormorant in Galapagos Islands. Image by Heidi Bruce via Unsplash. The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) demonstrates a subtle yet distinctive seasonal color transformation that ...

The kagu is a flightless bird native to the dense forests of New Caledonia, a French territory in the south-western Pacific Ocean, east of Australia. The bird is generally regarded as elusive ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land animals. But that does not mean they went unchallenged.

On a recent visit to La Jolla, I had to giggle watching cormorants landing on the sandstone cliffs. They made quail look like flying Aces. The cormorant landing was more like a controlled crash.

On a recent visit to La Jolla, I had to giggle watching cormorants landing on the sandstone cliffs. They made quail look like flying Aces. The cormorant landing was more like a controlled crash.

The birds will literally starve. The ones that can dive like cormorants and sea ducks are still eating, they're not having this problem. So it's specific to how brown pelicans feed," Bergeron said.

The birds will literally starve. The ones that can dive like cormorants and sea ducks are still eating, they’re not having this problem. So it’s specific to how brown pelicans feed ...

Despite being flightless, the ostriches of Africa have distant relations in Australia, New Zealand, and South America. All part of a group called the ratites, these birds share some common ...

A penguin. It seems so unlikely here. Loading To be fair, penguins are the embodiment of unlikely: flightless birds that waddle, acclimated to Earth’s harshest conditions. Over the years ...

Needless to say, some of the natural world’s most efficient fishers, such as otters, grey herons and cormorants, have very little objection to this practice. In these years visiting the Dodder ...