As an animal evolves, it can sometimes fork into two separate species. Also known as speciation, this phenomenon depends significantly on the animal’s natural living environment and has repeatedly ...

I often hike in a nearby nature preserve that is adjacent to Beaver Creek in Columbiana County. The background music of birds is part of why I enjoy the experience, and I use Cornell University’s ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The holiday spirit can extend to creatures of all kinds. Bring your Christmas cheer to a West Michigan animal sanctuary this weekend. The Blandford Nature Center, a 264-acre ...

It's the size of a hawk. It's common only in wilderness areas. It's long since been driven out of settled areas by shooting and poisoning. I am speaking of the common raven. Raven pairs can be seen ...

A rescued raven found a new home at the Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills in mid-May, and the public is invited to help choose a name. The center took in the Corvus corax — the common raven — after ...

Common ravens (Corvus corax; ravens) are known nest predators that have the ability to negatively impact nesting birds, including imperiled species of seabirds and shorebirds. We conducted systematic ...

A new study shows that the common raven is anything but commonplace in its evolution. Using DNA samples taken from ravens for nearly twenty years, the study provides evidence that common ravens on the ...

“Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore.’” Who doesn’t recognize that unmistakable phrase? Edgar Allan Poe immortalized the spirit of the raven in a way that has not been duplicated. This small phrase possibly ...