A cormorant who realized he couldn't quite eat his rainbow trout in one swallow has been captured in incredible pictures off the Gulf Coast of Texas. The aquatic bird, which can weigh as much as 11 ...

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Cormorant fishing, a method that involves lighting a fire to lure sweetfish and catching them with tamed cormorants, is today a popular tourist attraction that marks the beginning of summer in Japan.

Cormorant fishing has been a fishing method in Japan and China for over 1,300 years. Commercially popular fishing methods put the tradition at risk of disappearing. More sediment, falling water levels ...

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 ...

Cormorant fishing on China's Li River is all but dying out. Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. — Garbled signals from cellular antennas may have grounded the Galápagos cormorant. Galápagos cormorants (Phalacrocorax harrisi) are the only cormorant species with wings too ...

Lowcountry coasts and lagoons wouldn’t be the same without the gawky presence of Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus). When not riding low in the water or diving for fish, these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CORMORANT, Minn. — The newly elected mayor of Cormorant, a great pyrenees dog named Khaleesi, was sworn in on Saturday, Aug. 17, during the town’s annual summer festival. It's a story WDAY reporter ...