Many kinds of bird regularly forage for prey underwater. These birds have a variety of ways of doing so and adaptations to match. Life in the water is very different from life in the air. The first ...

You might think there’s no safer place underwater than snugged to the side of the largest fish on Earth. But you would be wrong. Divers watched in awe as a particularly persistent bird called a ...

Birds that dive underwater — such as penguins, loons and grebes — may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving kin, a new study finds. Many water birds have evolved highly specialized bodies ...

On December 2, 2025, in the Four Girls Mountain area of Aba, Sichuan, Mr. Meng captured footage of a bird diving underwater to catch fish. The video shows the bird catching fish with a rhythmic ...

It was a tense 3 1/2-hour car ride for Cyndi Routledge, who was chasing down a creature never seen before in Tennessee. Routledge, secretary of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, had gone on drives ...

Smashing through the water at 60 miles per hour, this shot of a gannet in the Shetland Islands in Scotland has scooped a British photographer the grand prize in an international photo competition.