If you’re headed to the art fairs in Miami this week, be sure to watch the night skies. You may just see a flock of starlings moving in a captivating formation called a murmuration—except these won’t ...

European starlings, an invasive species some of us have been tilting with for decades, are superior birds. It's no wonder that today there are an estimated 200 million of them in North America. It was ...

When William Shakespeare wrote Henry IV, Part 1 in the 1500s, little could he have imagined that, 400 years later, it would ...

The above image is genuine, and its photographer, Biber, confirmed its authenticity in an email to Snopes. Brine published the photograph in a series on the World Photography Organisation's (WPO) ...

The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare - or, better yet, a few of his strangest fans. Had the Bard not mentioned the starling in the third scene of ...

Great efforts have been made to curtail the introduction of exotic species into the wild. One reason is because some become too successful, threatening the well-being of native species. Many plants ...

Photographer Søren Solkær describes early autumn in Denmark as eternal. When the sky grows darker around sunset, time stops. But this imperishable moment is sometimes caused by a phenomenon slightly ...

WEST PALM BEACH (CBSMiami/AP) — It's no secret South Florida has a problem with invasive species such as Burmese pythons, green Iguanas, cane toads, and lionfish, but if you look up, you'll see ...

As starling numbers fall to record lows in the UK, gardeners have been urged to feed them four specific food scraps to help them thrive. According to the 2025 RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, fewer ...

Why is a flock of starlings like a glass of water? The answer is that both are complex systems with many parts acting together as one. The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi has ...

Some of this writing really is meant as a joke. The collection's longest piece, "Three Shouts on a Hill," is a short play that mixes the ancient Irish myth of the sons of Tuireann with Japanese mecha ...