Founded by ecological researcher Bradley Allf, The Concrete Chorus Project investigates what makes birds thrive in cities.

Less than 20 miles southeast of Columbia lies more than 20,000 acres of bottomland and upland forest nestled around the ...

Congaree National Park is the largest intact old growth bottomland forest in the country. This is the story of how those forests disappeared and Congaree National Park survived.

While birds probably began nesting in the Arctic even earlier than 73 million years ago, the fossils are the oldest traces of this behaviour found to date.

A weekslong search for a missing University of South Carolina student ended when the teenager’s body was recently recovered from the Congaree River near Columbia, officials said Tuesday. Donaven ...

IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river and no birds sang. It was quiet, like The Duke used to say, “A little too quiet.” I figured the birds were up to something. Normally I’d be cussing the fish ducks about ...

The Congaree River meanders all along the park’s southern border to create the 50-mile designated recreational paddling trail known as the Congaree River Blue Trail, while various creeks, lakes, and ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ultraviolet (UV) light, a new study found.

Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

Male birds-of-paradise have a lot of tools in their arsenal for attracting potential mates: bright feathers, elaborate dances and, according to new research, the ability to glow.