The albatross is one of nature's most impressive flyers, soaring effortlessly over the ocean for days or weeks at a time, often without flapping its wings for hours. These majestic seabirds are built ...

As long-lived predators at the top of the marine food chain, albatrosses accumulate toxic contaminants such as PCBs, DDT, and mercury in their bodies. A new study has found dramatic differences in ...

The world's oldest known wild bird is hatching a plan to continue her legacy. Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, just laid her first egg in four years in Hawaii, according to U.S. Wildlife ...

Nancy Caruso sat on an island in the North Pacific Ocean just inches from a Laysan albatross and watched as the large black-and-white sea bird with a 6.5-foot wingspan added grass to its nest to cover ...

This YouTube clip, released in 2019 as part of a BBC documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough, is so heartbreaking that it reduced many viewers to tears. Many people expressed their distress on ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Author and seabird expert Peter Harrison will present a lecture on albatrosses this Sunday as a part of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Future of Oceans series. “I love them, ...

Washington, D.C., May 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The biggest threat albatrosses face at sea is being caught and killed on commercial fishing hooks as they target bait for food. New research shows ...

POIPU >> When a moli, or Laysan albatross, took its first flight from the hotel grounds of The Point at Poipu Kauai on July 9, Hob Osterlund was thrilled. “She was just over five months old,” said ...