Amy Lardner first heard the strangled squawking sound while walking near the Lincoln Park Zoo more than a decade ago. It was the call of the black-crowned night heron, a wetland bird found throughout ...

There are new characters now available to star in a "Jurassic World" movie. Palaeontologists announced the discovery of two new species of dinosaurs on Wednesday in a journal article for Scientific ...

Trail camera videos shared by Florida wildlife officials show herons have been seen wandering with a bizarre-looking ”armored” fish dangling from their beaks, and there’s a reason the creatures don’t ...

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the "hell heron" and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London. The ...

When the bones of an ancient heron were unearthed at a North Florida fossil site, the find wasn't made by researchers but by two Florida Museum of Natural History volunteers. A previously unknown ...

Volunteers have unearthed the bones of an ancient heron at a site in North Central Florida. The extinct species is believed to have lived in wetlands like the blue and great blue herons do today, ...

There are new characters now available to star in a "Jurassic World" movie. Palaeontologists announced the discovery of two new species of dinosaurs on Wednesday in a journal article for Scientific ...

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