That’s how Melissa Boyle Acuti describes the northern saw-whet owl, the smallest owl species found in Maryland and one of the smallest in North America. They’re hardly bigger than a fist with ...

“It’s the owl from Harry Potter — Hedwig. “It’s a rarity. It’s a rare sighting in New York City, generally one we only get in the middle of winter.” The mostly polar white owl ...

A TikTok video of an adorable elf owl in Arizona has gone viral, amassing over 3.2 million likes and 21 million views. In the clip, Mark from the Animal Experts wildlife control company in Tucson ...

The people of Willowfell are ravaged by blight, and only a threadmender like Edira Brillwyn may be able to cure the infected—but each time Edira uses her magic, she shortens her own life.

The art critics of The Times select their favorites ... which filled a 17th-century customs house with lifelike brain scans, 500-million-year-old fossils, robots who perform autopsies in the ...

Independent, art-house films don't find too many takers in India, where audiences are raised on a staple diet of Bollywood and other mainstream films, complete with song-and-dance routines ...

Meara covers streaming service news for CNET. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism. When she's not writing, she likes to dote over her cat, sip black ...

Hannah Baillie had never seen an owl in the wild until last Monday evening, when she was running along Halifax's popular Chain of Lakes trail. She noticed the bird swoop onto a tree and was ...

The 45-year-old architect had mostly designed temporary structures before becoming the first woman to design a wing at the country’s largest art museum. By Robin Pogrebin Giuseppe Terragni ...

I wanted this to be a happy house.” Rotenberg is executive director ... “It was a lot of work, but it looks like a piece of art.” The metal staircase, which was custom made and resembles ...

Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today ... die of typhoid in the White House. Scarlet fever is now generally curable with a 10-day course of antibiotics.