Eighteen albatrosses have taken off from three Australian islands, the start of a race organized by conservation groups and the world's largest bookmaker to raise money and awareness by taking bets on ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Steffen Oppel remembers ...

Albatrosses all around the world are in trouble. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recognizes most species as threatened or near-threatened with the risk of extinction.

The famed albatrosses of Midway Atoll took a beating from the tsunami, but their population will survive, say biologists on the islands. There are, of course, more pressing concerns in the tsunami's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the far end of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands lies Kuaihelani – also known as Midway Atoll – a small set of islands home to ...

The albatross is a species of seabird known for its large size, but these birds are also notable because they mate for life. FRANCESCO VENTURA: Well, albatrosses are probably the epitome of love in ...

Romanticised in poetry, the wandering albatross is famed for its enormous wing-span and long life. The bird can often live to 50 years and beyond. But now a group of scientists from the University of ...

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Albatrosses do not fall in love the way humans do. When the birds couple up, it’s almost always for keeps. Their lives start lonely—albatross parents lay only one egg at a time, and may leave their ...