Many of us here in west Texas are familiar with the largest of the owls, the great horned owl. Its “whoo-whoo-whoo” song resounds throughout the southwest evenings. Some of us have even observed one ...

From the perspective of a pitiful pocket gopher, the barn owl must seem like the perfect killing machine. Consider: The owls see prey in the dark from several hundred feet away. They can hear a mouse ...

Paleontologists have identified a 55-million-year old owl fossil that had talons like a hawk, according to a newly published study. The research tells the tale of Primoptynx poliotauros, a creature ...

There were quiet gasps of awe as a barn owl took wing on Saturday, emerging from a cardboard travel box and then flying rapidly away from the people grouped near Stow House to witness her return to ...

Backyard bird-watchers looking for Santa Claus may have better luck watching December night skies for the magnificent barn owl. These beautiful white ghosts of the night silently hunt in darkness and ...