Whoa! That cheeky magpie is a bird. A magpie swoops low overhead and lands on a branch. With black and white feathers and a beak. It’s looking for insects. Like that beautiful buzzing bee. A bee flies ...

Children hear as much sophisticated information about animals when parents read picture book stories about animals as when they read flashcard-type animal vocabulary books, according to a new study.

In eighth grade when I read that Julius Caesar had an aquiline nose, I mistakenly thought it had something to do with water. But aquiline is from Latin aquila, meaning eagle, not aqua, water. He had a ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...