It's a bird, it's a plane! Nope — it's a luge racer speeding down an ice track at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Luge — a sport where athletes hurl themselves downhill feet-first on a small sled — ...

Athletes can reach speeds of up to 96 miles per hour, according to our analysis, which is faster than a cheetah.

(Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Peregrine falcon reproduction in Iowa “likely remains stable” following successful reintroduction efforts in the 1990s, but the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said ...

The Iowa DNR says their surveys show ospreys, and peregrine falcons are doing well. The birds were almost wiped out in North America in the Mid-20th Century from pesticide use. DNR wildlife research ...

The osprey, along with the American bald eagle and peregrine falcon, was once a "poster child" for DDT contamination. The number of young ospreys in Iowa hit a record in 2025 with at least 58 ...

We Energies said its peregrine falcon program reached a milestone in 2025. The utility's Peregrine Falcon Nesting Season Report outlines the program. The program was created in 1992 to reduce the ...

In the relentless theater of survival that is the natural world, speed is often the difference between life and death. Whether pursuing prey across vast savannas or evading becoming someone else’s ...

Speed represents one of evolution’s most remarkable adaptations. In the natural world, velocity can mean the difference between catching dinner or going hungry, escaping predators or becoming prey.

The U.S. and Canada have failed in their bid to loosen restrictions on the international trade in peregrine falcons, with delegates to CITES, the global wildlife trade convention, voting against it at ...

In the skies above Princeton’s campus, peregrine falcons have been spotted near Fine Hall for almost a decade. Now, Diego Segura ’27 is leading an initiative to provide nest boxes for the birds.

GLOCESTER, R.I. (WPRI) — A local dentist played an important role in saving a peregrine falcon that was recently injured after hitting the side of Rhode Island Hospital. “I got a call from [the Rhode ...