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Black-browed albatrosses can plunge up to a whopping 62 feet (19 metres) into the sea in pursuit of their prey — more than twice the depth previously thought. This is the conclusion of University of ...

The Wandering Albatross, the world's largest flying bird has a wing span of up to 3.5 metres and can travel several thousand kilometres across the sea on a single journey. But these powerful birds are ...

The famed albatrosses of Midway Atoll took a beating from the tsunami, but their population will survive, say biologists on the islands. There are, of course, more pressing concerns in the tsunami's ...

When it comes to fidelity, birds fit the bill: Over 90 percent of all bird species are monogamous and — mostly — stay faithful, perhaps none more famously than the majestic albatross. Albatross ...

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Albatrosses demonstrating a mutilated bill, with half the upper mandible missing having been cut off (Nicholas Daudt). A new study has documented a harrowing but increasingly prevalent trend, in which ...

Wandering albatrosses find food by heavily relying on their sense of smell. The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell.

Albatrosses do not fall in love the way humans do. When the birds couple up, it’s almost always for keeps. Their lives start lonely—albatross parents lay only one egg at a time, and may leave their ...

The world's largest seabirds, the albatrosses, are soon to benefit from international protection which may arrest their slide towards extinction. South Africa has become the fifth country to ratify ...

Researchers suggest typically loyal albatross could be divorcing more because of climate change. The scientific term for when an albatross couple calls it quits is called divorce. The albatross is a ...

The spectacular wandering albatrosses in Sunday's Blue Planet programme on the BBC have suffered a major decline in numbers over the past three decades. New research suggests breeding pairs of this ...