The Laysan albatross is a gull-like albatross that makes its home in the North Pacific, particularly the Hawaiian islands. Despite having a six-foot wingspan, its actually on the smaller side for an ...

Every year, wildlife biologists in the Hawaiian archipelago anxiously await an albatross named Wisdom. The world’s oldest known wild bird, 74, makes an annual pilgrimage to the Midway Atoll National ...

The world's oldest known wild bird may soon be a mom again! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Tuesday, Dec. 3, that Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan ...

A biologist at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge noted that Wisdom the bird still 'seems to still have the energy and instincts for raising another chick' Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the estimated age of 74 on a North Pacific island, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. The wildlife service Pacific region ...

MIDWAY ATOLL (WKRC) - The oldest known bird in the world, an albatross named Wisdom, laid an egg at the age of 74. Wisdom was first tagged by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1956 when ...

(CNN) – Scientists are marveling over the world’s oldest-known wild bird and her brand-new egg. A 74-year-old albatross named Wisdom was spotted at an island sanctuary in Hawaii with the egg and a new ...

Scientists in Antarctica have discovered what may be the oldest modern bird ever found. The 69 million-year-old fossil could finally put a longstanding debate about the origin of modern birds to rest.

(Reuters) - Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...