These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

The large bird of prey largely feeds on carrion and worms and cuts a distinctive silhouette with wing tips that look like splayed fingers and ...

As winter weather comes down from the north, bringing with it ice along the Mississippi River, eagles, trumpeter swans, and ...

Yellowhammers, a conspicuous canary yellow farmland bunting, were once a common sight in the Isle of Man. But their numbers dropped drastically in the 1990s and from around 2010 they had become very ...