I'm fascinated by owl pellets, which contain various parts of an owl's prey that they cannot digest, including fur, feathers, teeth, bones, and more. Since owls don't have teeth and can't chew their ...

Owls puke up a grayish pellet that contains undigested critter parts filtered through the bird’s gizzard. Think hairball, with bones -- perfect for bored kids to dissect. Biologist Pete Bloom gathers ...

I love revisiting topics students covered in elementary school again in high school. Before I knew better, we used to raise and release monarch butterflies in my Advanced Placement Environmental ...

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, a barn owl has just eaten a mouse. Twelve hours from now, give or take, it will regurgitate a compact mass of fur and bones known as an owl pellet. The pellet will ...

Tyrell Park Nature Center is hosting its first ever educational program this week. "Hoo’s There? Can you solve this owl mystery, using an owl pellet and bones?” is an interactive after-school program ...

Having lived with cats most of my life, I long ago got over the "ick" factor associated with things that animals cough up. My fluffy, ribbon-eating cat reveals his secret, forbidden predilection every ...

Last week's moment of nature video featured owls on Plum Island off the Massachusetts coast. I've written about owls several times in this space, including snow owls and short-eared owls. Owls have ...

BELLINGHAM -- Somewhere, as you read this, a long-legged, heart-faced barn owl is stretching out its neck and delicately upchucking. Out drops a compact pellet of undigested lunch, which falls onto a ...

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, a barn owl has just eaten a mouse. Twelve hours from now, give or take, it will regurgitate a compact mass of fur and bones known as an owl pellet. The pellet will ...