Albatross birds are masters at soaring through the wind without flapping their wings. They can spend years over the ocean without touching land. (Image from Albatross documentary) If ever there was a ...

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Albatrosses have the longest wings in the animal kingdom. And they are masters at using them efficiently. In fact, they spend most of their time up in the clouds, and very little with their feet on ...

The biggest flying bird in the world can go for years without touching land, has complicated, comical mating dances that take years to learn, and might even help scientists track down illegal fishing ...

Every year, more than eight million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. It was a number so astounding that even Jenna Jambek, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia and lead ...

It was 1988, and I was a newspaper reporter on a small airplane flying over the Senkaku Islands. We made two turns around the islands while I had the cameraman accompanying me take a series of photos ...

This week I’m going to venture south, below the equator and tell you about a bird that most of us will never see. The albatross is one of the largest flying birds in the world with a wingspan that ...

At 66-years-old the world's oldest known breeding bird, an albatross named Wisdom, has hatched another chick. The chick hatched two months after Wisdom was first spotted incubating an egg at the same ...