A Blue Planet II segment shows researchers finding plastic bags, food packaging, and even a fatal toothpick inside albatross ...

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British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and RSPB are recruiting albatross detectives to help to search for wandering albatrosses in satellite images taken from space in an effort to learn more about how these ...

When black-browed albatrosses mate, they're usually in it for life. These giant, regal seabirds can live for up to 70 years. Albatrosses spend the better part of the year sailing above the open ocean ...

Southern giant petrels have so far killed nearly 100 Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Courtesy of Michelle Risi, Christopher Jones and Alexis Osborne This ...

To golfers, an albatross means that you’re three under par on a single hole. To poetry majors, it’s a centuries-old metaphor for unbearable burdens. To bird enthusiasts, it's one of earth’s most ...

The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell. The birds can pick up a scent from several miles away, researchers have ...