Larry Bird takes great pride in the fact that he rarely yelled at his players during his coaching tenure with the Indiana Pacers. His presence alone demanded authority, without having to get too loud ...

Were it not for a string of unlikely events and minor miracles, the world might have never known a basketball legend. In the beginning, the boy didn’t like basketball as much as he seemed to like just ...

Flapping-wing robo-bird uses two tails to fly fast or slow Many readers will remember the MetaFly, a remote-control robotic insect that flies by actually flapping its wings. Well, its inventor is back ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Frigatebirds can remain airborne for days at a time without ...

There’s a mystery down in the Huddleston area, along the southeast reaches of Smith Mountain Lake. For decades, some residents on Lee Drive have delightedly watched a pair of nesting osprey return ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

Bruce M. Beehler is a naturalist and author. His most recent book is “Flight of the Godwit: Tracking Epic Shorebird Migrations.” Could anything be more humbling to the puffed-up human race than the ...

New York City is a dangerous place for birds. For the second year in a row, a record number of migrating birds were killed after flying headfirst into the city’s nearly invisible skyline, according to ...

Let’s get this out of the way: If you’re mad about William Nylander flipping the camera off, you’re probably missing the point. The gesture itself was harmless, even playful. Just another case of ...

Today on Variant, Arris and Tim discuss their issues with the Birds of Prey Movie and how it perfectly demonstrates the biggest problem with the DCEU, in this clip from Episode 15 of Variant The ...

Every spring, raptors return to nesting sites across northern Michigan. The smallest of these birds of prey, a falcon called the American kestrel (Falco sparverius), flies through the region’s many ...

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I always have rather enjoyed the few times myself or one of my teams wore the scarlet bullseye. It wasn’t the attention. It was a compliment. Nobody cares if ...