There are two things I remember distinctively in my great grandmother’s house—a red oxide floor, gleaming like water, cool and unmarred by tile-style boundaries ...

Residents of Lokhandwala in Andheri West and city-based nature lovers have welcomed the long-awaited clean-up of Mumbai’s ...

Ajmer: Geeta Gujjar grew up in Jethana village, in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district, where water was never scarce. “So when I ...

Minal Jani, deputy conservator of forests, told The Times of India that the "possession or trade of these species is illegal ...

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Imagine my excitement when I thought I had taken a photograph of a Carolina parakeet, an extinct bird. In the spirit of full disclosure, it was not a live bird (Hello! Extinct!) but an unlabeled, ...

The unfamiliar monk parakeets got to know each other slowly before moving on to behaviors like preening, pictured here. Claire O'Connell Monk parakeets are highly social birds. These bright green ...

A viral video shows a British man holding blue-ringed octopus (Image: X/@CollinRugg) A viral video shows a man holding a tiny but deadly octopus. This creature is known as the blue-ringed octopus, one ...

Several Derbyan parakeets sit on branches of a banyan tree in Mangba village, Pu'er city, Yunnan province, last month. CHEN LIANG/CHINA DAILY For the past 54 years, Wang Cheng has shared his life with ...

But I had never witnessed what I saw recently: hundreds of birds perched and sleeping in the trees around a car park. There were so many that the tree itself seemed to grow green leaves overnight.

Andrew McConnell, a journalist and glass historian from Antiques Roadshow in the UK shared the experience to social media saying: “My close encounter with death. Exploring the world alone, 11,000km ...