PELLSTON, MICH. -- Of the many tools used in the fight to bring Great Lakes piping plovers back from the threat of extinction, the common household feather duster might be the most unexpected — and ...
An Australian zoo has successfully doubled the population of a critically endangered bird by swapping in a feather duster for an absentee father who abandoned his chicks just before hatching. Male ...
Two new fossils of the Earth's oldest tree, a type of fern that grew 30 feet tall, have shown scientists what forests may have looked like 380 million years ago. For the first time, it has been ...