Ancient Rome had plenty of normal food, including bread, olives, beans, wine, fish, and fruit. Then there were the dishes ...

Monk parakeets ease into new friendships, slowly approaching strangers to avoid aggressive encounters. Researchers watched how birds shared space, groomed each other, and escalated to deeper social ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 866-366-3723, uses a risk-based inspection reporting process for restaurants and other food handlers.

A marine heat wave caused a slew of seabird deaths off the California coast. Scientists fear the die-off could worsen with ...

To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghel’s paintings teem with ...

Natural historians have many observational techniques in their toolkit for learning about the natural world: tagging animals with tracking devices, recording sounds, analyzing droppings or simply ...

When 10-year-old Samuel Henderson decided to share his bird calls at a school talent show this past May, he wasn’t nervous at all. In fact, in his mind, he was playing to a much larger audience than ...

Why did evolution produce a spider the size of a dinner plate? The Goliath birdeater offers a fascinating glimpse into life on the Amazon forest floor.

When parakeets started coming over “in squadrons” to peck at her grapes, threatening to decimate the vineyard, she invested in a German machine that blasts the sound of birds of prey attacking and ...

In this passionate documentary, Chris Packham looks at the notorious nature invaders – and whether we should love or loathe those flashes of neon green in our skies ’Twas a grim February teatime in ...

Ring-necked parakeets are doing no damage to the UK’s wildlife landscape and it would be “reckless, culturally insensitive, and economically unviable” to try and remove them. So says Chris Packham, ...