A rare bird could be spotted near Sioux Falls Friday morning. Professional bird watchers and people were gathered just off ...

Great grey owls are the longest owl species, measuring 24 to 33 inches in length. Females are slightly longer than males, measuring 28 inches on average while males measure 26 inches. Their wingspan ...

DULUTH — Driving along Haines Road on April 3, I noticed a great gray owl sitting in the snow. Great gray owls are creatures of the boreal forest and only occasionally are found this far south. I was ...

It’s somehow odd to think that when I was young, it was widely assumed that dinosaurs did not care for their young. There’s even a type of dinosaur called an Oviraptor (egg stealer), named such ...

The prevailing assumption suggests the great gray owl, being a tree-cavity nester, mistook the vault toilet’s ventilation pipe as an appealing hole worth investigating. Instead, on Dec. 9, the pipe ...

GRAND FORKS – Robert W. Nero died Jan. 23, four weeks past his 100th birthday. Such longevity itself is remarkable, but that’s not the reason to celebrate Nero’s life in this column. Instead, the ...

The McDougall Terminal Warehouse Company of Duluth has purchased four lake freighters for $110,000 on the condition that it spends an additional $240,000 to reconstruct them for use. The vessels are ...

A few snowy owls were documented in Wisconsin in early November, the first of the species to arrive in the state for the ...

Don’t let owls’ cute faces fool you—they’re deadly predators. This duality is part of what makes them so mysterious to humans. And their contradictions don’t end there: Their hoots are among the most ...