A backyard bird in suburban San Antonio turned out to be something extraordinary: the natural offspring of a green jay and a ...

A woman in a San Antonio suburb took a photo one spring morning in 2021 of a bird in her yard that looked odd. Its feathers were as blue as any Blue Jay, but its body patterns and chunky black mask ...

The docuseries “Secrets of the Penguins” by National Geographic captured footage of several rare penguin chicks for the very first time. Their parents are a mixed-species couple: a rockhopper mother ...

Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

UNIVERSAL CITY, Texas – A Universal City woman discovered a rare hybrid bird in her backyard. Donna Currey, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, said she was sitting on her porch three years ago when she ...

(CNN) - Researchers in Texas say they’ve identified the first-known wild hybrid between a blue jay and a green jay. According to a study published earlier this month in the journal “Ecology and ...

The mammoth was likely butchered by early human hunters nearly 15,000 years ago. — -- A farmer near Ann Arbor, Michigan, recently unearthed the skull, tusks and other bones of a mammoth possibly ...

The California tiger salamander relies on seasonal ponds to breed. But for decades, the species has been under pressure from ...