while the sharp red breast of a male cardinal attracts females that are ready to mate. Within species, color variations are found throughout the animal kingdom, including melanistic animals with more ...

However, it all started out very differently. “Look, he is from my diocese,” Cardinal Marcello Semeraro said, pulling a large red binder from a bookshelf. Standing in the narrow hallway ...

It’s a recessive genetic trait, and “a rare sight to see,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife wrote in a post about a leucistic squirrel spotted at Staunton State Park in 2021. Different species of ...

A rare population of leucistic, or partially white, purple-faced langurs near Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja Forest Reserve has attracted ecotourism interest, even as monkeys in general are perceived by ...

A leucistic cardinal sits in a bush near Leath Run north of Newport. Leucistic cardinals lack the normal red pigment in their feathers but do have color on their crests, wings and tails.

Rowing competitions begin this weekend on Oak Ridge's Melton Hill Lake with the Cardinal Invitational on Saturday and continuing with the Dogwood Masters Regatta in May. It's spring in Oak Ridge. The ...

Roughly two months after his appointment was announced, Cardinal Robert McElroy was formally installed as the leader in the Archdiocese of Washington. McElroy, 71, introduced himself during a ...

I have reacted with anger toward people like New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, especially when the Vatican has been transparent about the pope's health, reassuring the public. Yet Dolan said on Feb ...