Peoria Christian’s all-time scoring and assists leader is getting ready to play college basketball next season. Malachi ...

Unlike most other bird species, the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species ...

Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male Humboldt penguins, are stepping up to raise a chick at Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom.

Grizzly bears continue to move back into prairie country in Montana. Near tiny rural communities, they’ve been attacking ...

Wisconsin Public Radio National animal advocacy groups are calling on the Buffalo County district attorney to charge a ...

Animal Partisan and Humane Farming Association push for 30 criminal charges and a $300,000 fine against the bankrupt poultry ...

The prairie chicken was listed as a threatened in the state in 1979 and is classified as a "species of greatest conservation need." In 2024 the DNR counted just 288 male prairie chickens on 37 ...

Male prairie chickens have orange air sacs on the sides of their necks that they will inflate and “boom” during mating. The birds begin their courtship dance and booming at dawn in the ...

Two male prairie chickens display during the birds' annual mating ritual in April at Buena Vista Wildlife Area in central Wisconsin. The state's largest solar farm is proposed for parcels near the ...

Artist rendering of lesser prairie chickens. Male (left) and female in a prairie setting. Biologists originally classified lesser and greater prairie chickens as two species.

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species. Difficult to distinguish by their physical appearance alone, some scientists ...