White barn owls are effective killing machines. They fly silently through the night air and swoop down on unsuspecting prey ...

Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on rodents scurrying along the ground below. Scientists have long puzzled over a ...

Barn owls pull off something that seems almost impossible: striking prey with lethal accuracy in pitch-black darkness, guided ...

A team of biology and optics researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in Spain has found that the unique undercoating of the barn owl helps to make it less visible to prey when flying under ...

It seems to contradict every rule of evolution: a predator that glows in the dark. But for the white barn owl, the lack of ...

This spring, more than 62,000 people from North Carolina and around the world watched as six barn owl eggs hatched live on ...

Barn owls swoop down on rodents and swallow them whole – gophers, voles and mice, gone in a few gulps. But how do they keep down all that food? Well, they don’t. In a few stomach-turning steps, they ...