Romanticised in poetry, the wandering albatross is famed for its enormous wing-span and long life. The bird can often live to 50 years and beyond.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 13, 2013 not rated yet 1

(Phys.org) —A new model can predict the location of the most important fishing grounds for the black-browed albatross, helping conservationists to protect this endangered species.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

The world's oldest-known wild bird-a 62-year-old albatross on Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean-is also a new mother.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 08, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

New Zealand's common fish n chip lovin' seagull increasingly prefers the Otago coast as its home more than anywhere else in New Zealand, a University of Otago study has found.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 23, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

Hewlett-Packard now has a legal headache to compound its misery as the company tries to recover from a series of setbacks that have hammered its stock price and raised doubts about its future.

Technology - Business

Nov 27, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—It weighed about 155 pounds and had a 34-foot wingspan, close to the size of an F-16 fighter jet. A five-foot-long skull looked down from a standing height similar to that of a modern giraffe. ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 07, 2012 5 / 5 (5) 9 |

Albatrosses leverage the energy of the wind to fly with essentially no mechanical cost to themselves, very rarely flapping their wings, and new work published Sep. 5 in the open access journal PLOS ONE offers ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 05, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

A tiny songbird weighing just two tablespoons of sugar migrates from the Arctic to Africa and back, a distance of up to 29,000 kilometres (18,000 miles), scientists reported on Wednesday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 15, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 5

On Midway atoll in the North Pacific, dozens of young albatross lie dead on the sand, their stomachs filled with cigarette lighters, toy soldiers and other small plastic objects their parents have mistaken ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 02, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Palaeontologists said on Wednesday they had found the fossilised remains of a giant bird that lived in Central Asia more than 65 million years ago, a finding which challenges theories about the diversity of ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Aug 10, 2011 4.4 / 5 (7) 1

Tens of thousands of albatrosses and other far-ranging seabirds are killed each year after they become caught in longline fishing gear. Innovative new models developed by a Duke University-led research team may help reduce ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 04, 2011 not rated yet 0

A race to rescue up to 20,000 endangered penguins from an oil spill in an isolated south Atlantic British island group was underway Thursday after a cargo ship ran aground.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 24, 2011 not rated yet 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An oceanographer may be offering the best explanation yet of one of the great mysteries of flight--how albatrosses fly such vast distances, even around the world, almost without flapping their ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 17, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

(AP) -- Thousands of seabirds were killed when the tsunami generated by last week's massive earthquake off Japan flooded Midway, a remote atoll northwest of the main Hawaiian islands, a federal wildlife official ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 16, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0

The oldest known U.S. wild bird – a coyly conservative 60 -- is a new mother.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 08, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0