Early results showed Peru's razor-tight presidential runoff Sunday remained too close to call, with four-time candidate Keiko ...

For millions of years, male great bowerbirds have wooed their mates with flowers and seeds. But in today’s urban world, such ...

According to a new paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science by University of Exeter scientists, urbanization ...

Male bowerbirds are increasingly using plastic, glass, and other human-made objects to attract mates, showing how urban ...

It is said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but bowerbirds have turned refuse into an aphrodisiac, stealing ...

Unsual mating rituals are emerging in modern times. In a bizarre wild twist, a ...

Charles Darwin scratched his head over the purpose of bowers, the carefully tended sex dens of the bowerbird. But few scientists had conducted studies of these ornate constructions and their earnest ...

Forget Chip and Joanna Gaines, bowerbirds are the real home renovation stars! These incredible avian artists have a keen eye for color and are masters of interior design, spending countless hours ...

In my dictionary, art is defined as the human effort to, among other things, imitate the work of nature. It would seem to me, then, that the world we live in and every natural element of it is a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The article I discuss below came out last ...