Plans for a year-round light show at Mt Coot-Tha Botanic Gardens have been approved by Brisbane City Council, despite strong opposition from local residents and concern over the impact on traffic and ...

The brainy horses that counted with their feet in the circuses of yesteryear were merely well-trained frauds, but now a UC Santa Cruz scientist has discovered the real thing: an animal that can count.

While I was strolling around the lake one evening, I observed a young woman being mobbed by a crowd of avian groupies. They were about the size of a chicken with dark gray feathers, bright-white bills ...

OK. Enough is enough. No more denial. No more looking over my shoulder. Commonly referred to as mud hen or mud duck, the American coot is neither a duck nor a hen but is actually a giant member of the ...

EDISTO BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Just a little over a week after a tornado blew through parts of Edisto Beach, one heavily-damaged business is making a quick comeback.Coot's Bar & Grill reopened on Tuesday ...

A newly hatched American coot chick shows off its colorful ornamental plumes, beak, and naked head. The bright colors of coot chicks help their parents choose favorites, according to a new study. The ...

What looks like a duck, floats like a duck and swims like a duck, isn’t always a duck! My wife Laurie and I were reminded of this while watching American coots during our winter vacation in Southern ...

Too many mouths to feed? Just make your babies fight each other to the death! That's a strategy some bird parents have been using since even before TheHunger Games was popular. It means the strongest ...