For Science, Quickly, I’m Joseph Polidoro. The wandering albatross thrives in the circumpolar band of ocean north of Antarctica—a windswept region that the world’s best sailors say has the ...

A new study by the University of Liverpool provides the first evidence that wandering albatrosses, one of the widest-ranging seabirds, may use infrasound to help them navigate long and featureless ...

A new study by the University of Liverpool provides the first evidence that wandering albatrosses, one of the widest-ranging seabirds, may use infrasound to help them navigate long and featureless ...

Wandering Albatross chicks take more than nine months to make their first flight, according to Guinness World Records. That’s more than an average of 280 days, compared to the weeks it takes ...

Walking among wandering albatross chicks every day and watching them grow into fledglings - wow, just wow, it’s an absolute privilege.” But they are slowly being wiped out. “These fledglings ...

Important species at risk on the island between South Africa and Antarctica include the famed wandering albatross. A warmer and drier climate in the past 30 years has seen mouse numbers grow sharply.

As the mouse population has grown, so has their appetite — and in 2003, researchers discovered that the mice had started eating the chicks of wandering albatrosses on the island. Now ...