The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has one of the biggest bird collections in the world, housing over 600,000 specimens, from ducks to eagles to peacocks. The collection was ...

Netflix’s latest hit Bird Box, a psychological thriller starring Sandra Bullock and Sarah Paulson, has taken over the Internet, and now it’s starting to captivate fans IRL, too. The house that ...

Smithsonian geneticist Faridah Dahlan also joined the project to help with the genetic analysis. The analysis revealed the bird to be unique beyond the physical features Saucier and Milensky ...

Bird lovers have long squawked about the house cat’s appetite. In 2013, Smithsonian and other government scientists released a report suggesting that America’s cats—both pets and strays ...