Watching attractive males strut their stuff makes female birds more fertile and leads to healthier chicks, a new study suggests.
The finding could help improve breeding programs for endangered or threatened birds, because it highlights the importance of mating displays, scientists say.
French researchers studied the mating success of the Houbara bustard, a sandy-colored desert bird [...]
Voters in Fremont, Nebraska passed a much-debated measure Monday that would prohibit businesses and landlords from hiring or renting to people who are in the United States illegally.
Election workers told CNN affiliate KETV in Omaha that the unofficial results were 3,906 in favor to 2,908 against the measure; Workers said [...]
Barely able to sit up due to intense pain, first-time mother Bhateri Devi steadies herself with the help of a family member. She has had a Cesarean section, an experience many women have endured.
But Devi is different: She gave birth to triplets in May this year and is 66 years [...]
Benigno S. Aquino III was officially proclaimed the next president of the Philippines on Wednesday, vowing to fulfill his campaign promise to fight corruption and to immediately determine the “true state of the country.”
According to analysts, Mr. Aquino, who will become the 15th president of the republic on June 30, has [...]
Going up? During a 2008 expedition, a great white shark swims into position for its first elevator ride in a scene from the new National Geographic Channel documentary series Expedition Great White, premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Able to lift 37 tons, the hydraulic lift had never been used on a marine animal before [...]
Six men — three from Russia, one from China, one from France, and one from Italy — are now sealed in a facility at a medical institute in Russia for an experiment designed to simulate a manned mission to Mars.
The six “cosmonauts” will have only email contact with the outside world for the next [...]
Dorothy “Dottie” Kamenshek, the inspiration for the lead character in the popular movie A League of Their Own, has died. She was 84.
Kamenshek, who was named as one of the 100 greatest female athletes of the 20th Century by Sports Illustrated for Women, was an outstanding fielder and hitter for the Rockford Peaches, one [...]
ATMs are not always what they seem. Sometimes, the automated teller machine dispenses gold.
That’s the case with a machine at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, which is not only coated with a thin layer of gold but also will, for a price, give you something made of gold. The current range of 320 [...]
The odds are against you in most promotions, which is why businesses offer such things as $1 million for a seemingly impossible feat. But some people play anyway, just for the thrill of the chase.
That was certainly the case with Wade McGilberry, who bought a computer baseball game when it first came out and, [...]
