Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cormorant fishing has been a fishing method in Japan and China for over 1,300 years. Commercially popular fishing methods put the ...

Cormorants are one of the world’s most impressive bird species. They can take to the air in seconds and have a diving ...

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--When masters call out to a flock of Japanese cormorants, the birds return to the bank of a man-made pond, their throats bulging with fish. The scene resembles the traditional ...

The flightless Galapagos cormorant is one of a diverse array of animals that live on the Galapagos Islands, which piqued Charles Darwin’s scientific curiosity in the 1830s. He hypothesized that ...

The world's largest cormorant went extinct almost 200 years ago—but almost nothing is known about its life. A recent dive into the collections of museums around the world is helping to piece together ...

The great cormorant bird is eating too much fish for the liking of a group of European Union nations that recently called for ...

A lot has happened since we first heard about the AirMule, a prototype VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft that features internal rotor blades – these work along with the horizontal-thrust ...

White streaks of bird waste paint the steel trusses beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River. Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.

GIFU—The designer best known for the Nanatsuboshi (Seven Stars) sleeper train has completed another lavish project, this one ...

A eucalyptus tree in a Marina del Rey park that was home to dozens of soon-to-hatch double-crested cormorant eggs became unstable after strong winds, prompting a rescue mission to remove the eggs ...

Under the light of the moon, with sparkling fire swinging from the edge of their boats lighting their way, Gifu City's fishermen are ready to start their day. Instead of using poles, rods, and lures, ...