Cormorant fishing on China's Li River is all but dying out. Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey ...
With its big, floppy feet, the double-crested cormorant is kind of comical, but it’s the bird’s bad hair day that will really amuse you. Right now, visitors along San Diego’s coastline or at just ...
You might think there’s no safer place underwater than snugged to the side of the largest fish on Earth. But you would be wrong. Divers watched in awe as a particularly persistent bird called a ...
You know that feeling when you’re especially hungry and want to eat as much as possible, but your mouth is only so big? Well, some animals don’t have that problem! Unlike humans with our relatively ...
Scientists in Argentina recently attached a lipstick-size video camera to an imperial cormorant's back. The result? Footage of the so-called Superbird diving 150 feet (46 meters) to the seafloor to ...
Many aquatic animals like frogs and turtles spend a big part of their lives under water and have adapted to this condition in various ways, one being that they have excellent hearing under water. A ...
Key point: The Cormorant fell victim to budget cuts in 2008, it seems. But it’s hard to believe such a useful idea truly just went away. If submarines possessed the high vision and quick speed of ...
The great cormorant has more sensitive hearing under water than in air. This new knowledge may help protect vulnerable bird species. Many aquatic animals like frogs and turtles spend a big part of ...