A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new study has ...

Wisdom, the legendary Laysan albatross, stands at center over her recently laid egg with other seabirds around the ground nest on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge The world's oldest known wild ...

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The world’s oldest bird has had a chick - at 74 years old. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, or mÅ lÄ« in Hawaiian, has been spotted caring for her youngster on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge this ...

The sparrow-sized bird's fossil was detected in Northeastern Asia, according to Earth.com. Its throat was filled with an alarmingly high number of stones, and its teeth were similar to those of the ...

HONOLULU - Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird, has done it again, laying an egg on a remote island in the central Pacific. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Pacific region says the ...

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 ...

Environmentalists are celebrating after the world’s oldest bird has been spotted alive and well. Wisdom, a 75-year-old Laysan albatross, has returned for nesting season to the Midway Atoll National ...

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 ...

This bird’s no spring chicken — but she’s procreating in her 70s! The world’s oldest known wild bird, an albatross named Wisdom, triumphantly laid her first egg in years this week at the ripe old age ...