ST MATTHEWS, S.C. — A Lugoff man was fatally shot Monday evening after triggering a booby-trapped shotgun while checking on a vacant family home in St. Matthews, according to the Calhoun County ...

A South Carolina man was killed Monday when he triggered a booby trap while checking on a vacant Midlands home, according to the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office. Jordan Dove, a 34-year-old ...

Since late 2024, the avian influenza virus H5N1 has been spreading rapidly through wild bird populations, possibly spurred by fall migration. Waterfowl and seabirds have been hit hard, though ...

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Researchers have been eavesdropping on an unusual family of crows in Spain, collecting data on hundreds of thousands of different sounds the birds made. Small microphones recorded a variety of ...

Mossad agents were able to create booby-trap pager devices that concealed deadly components within them. Batteries inside the pagers were small but had enough plastic explosives and detonator to ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

Investigations into the source of the booby-trapped items revealed that although they had been provided to the Russian military by several “well-meaning” volunteer groups, they had all originated from ...

An outing to the countryside is a lovely way to spend the day, but bird watchers in the UK don’t need to leave home to enjoy some fantastic wild bird species. The United Kingdom is blessed with a host ...

Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds. Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in ...

A Jan. 30 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) makes a series of claims about bird flu. "Remember they are not killing the ducks, seagulls, eagles and quail," reads text in the post.

A woman in Wyoming and a farm worker in Ohio marked the latest Americans hospitalized with bird flu, as the virus continues to disrupt the poultry and cattle industries. Since the summer ...