Using drone imagery, New Zealand researchers are evaluating a deep learning model called BirdDetector, as it analyzes Salvin’s albatross populations across the Bounty Islands. After testing the model ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s little Ingenuity Mars Helicopter drone on Mars has ...

This week I’m going to venture south, below the equator and tell you about a bird that most of us will never see. The albatross is one of the largest flying birds in the world with a wingspan that ...

“Viewing the world today, we must all admit that Mother Earth is not in a good shape,” prestigious shipyard Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven says. Their proposal for helping our planet doesn’t involve any kind ...

Taylor Swift’s new bonus track “The Albatross” has Swifties already trying to deduce its meaning just hours after its announcement. “I’m really, really proud of this record,” Swift, 34, said of The ...

The world's oldest known wild bird, a Laysan albatross that is at least 68 years old, has laid another egg. Wisdom, who returns each year to Midway Atoll to nest, was seen back at her favorite nest ...

The world's oldest known wild bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, has hatched yet another chick at Midway Atoll in the Hawaiian archipelago. Biologists first identified and banded Wisdom in 1956; ...

I remember the first albatross I ever saw. I was on a small boat a few miles off the coast of New Zealand. As the bird sailed past, gliding on the wind, it skimmed low over the waves, the tip of one ...

Christopher B. Shelton, 76, skipper of the ill-fated sailing ship Albatross when it sank in a sudden storm in 1961, died Oct. 5 of pancreatic cancer in Stamford, Conn. Shelton used the 92-foot ...