More than 100 dogs competed in Michigan at a dock diving event, leaping into pools for distance, height and speed.

But orcas are also known to play with newly dead food. Some orcas in Puget Sound off Washington state have worn dead salmon as hats. Others drape seal intestines over their fins or take turns tossing ...

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a ...

An adult orca cruises near the surface of the clear, blue water, holding a large sunfish carcass in its mouth. Seconds later, ...

Researchers have developed a new kind of robot that flies through the air, swims through the water, and transitions between the two realms.

A true treasure of the Americas, hummingbirds are a diverse family of more than 340 species, only 17 of which are found north of Mexico. They are also keystone mutualists, nectar feeders that have ...

High above the rainforest floor, tiny ponds form in the leaves of plants perched on tree branches. Frogs breed in these ponds, alongside insects, microbes and even tiny crustaceans, creating miniature ...

Hummingbirds make bromeliad plants split into new species twice as fast as other pollinators do, scientists at the University of Reading have found. The research team gathered records of which animals ...

Most people assume hummingbirds are delicate, peaceful garden visitors that flit in, sip a little nectar, and disappear. Sweet little jewels of the backyard, nothing more. That assumption is almost ...

A dominant male – often a Rufous hummingbird, which arrives earlier than almost every other species and fights like it has something personal against everyone – will claim that feeder as exclusive ...

The best hummingbird feeders are small additions to your yard that can attract some of the most beautiful birds. Some smart bird feeder models even have cameras, so you can capture the exact moment a ...