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At the New England Aquarium in Boston, a new “retirement” island is designed to soothe the aches and pains of aging African ...

When it comes to pets, there are so many options. From dogs and cats to fish, retiles and even birds. If you've always wanted to be a pet parent to a feathered creature, you can definitely go that ...

Outdoors The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild places of Maine. It features stories on hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and recreation, t ...

How do you get people excited about birds? Apparently the answer hasn't changed all that much in more than a century.

Somehow we’ve fetched up here on the shore of Penobscot Bay in the Maine cottage with its windows facing the sea water. Here, ...

Whether they act weird, sound weird or seem like something out of a sci-fi novel, these animals are very strange indeed ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and nutrition ...

In some species, the higher the population density, the more likely both mates will cheat and thus maintain genetic diversity. Some colonial nesters, like bank swallows and cliff swallows, commingle ...

No eaglet hatched this spring for D.C.’s most famous bald eagle couple. For years, the feathered pair — Mr. President and ...