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I hadn’t realised up until that point that pigeon racing is a healthy sport in Portugal, second only to football, with around ...

For nearly a century, photographers for The New York Times have captured an annual extravaganza that is a red carpet gala, sporting event and fashion show rolled into one.

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Wheelchairs can help an injured or paralyzed dog get around more easily. Here are 15 dogs that are living their best, adorable lives with their wheelchairs.

Hillsboro, Texas, resident Nancy Tartaglia, 66, left, and Shaniah Mills, 15, wash their goat Jan. 17 at the Fort Worth Stock ...

In an increasingly fast-paced and digital world, loneliness has become one of the defining traits of our time. In this ...

One hundred years after Libby first began participating, the 2025 rendition of the Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count became ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...

Murphy’s Dr. Dolittle is a workaholic physician who neglects his family thanks to his busy schedule. He soon buckles under the pressure and hits a dog while driving. Fortunately, the dog gets back up ...

When temperatures drop and winter sets in, many pests begin searching for warm places to hide. Unfortunately, that often means moving into homes, garages and workplaces. December might feel too cold ...

Native to Africa and the Indian subcontinent, parakeets may look out of place in London skies, but they are anything but. Many of the UK’s native birds have struggled to cope with urban life, and ...