The first known reference to a heron in Japanese literature might be in the Kojiki, says Mariko Nagai, professor of Japanese literature at Temple University Japan. The Kojiki is Japan’s oldest ...

Mother Nature must be a horror fan. A wild new photo shows the gruesome moment a snake eel burst through the stomach of a heron in midair — a scene that looks fit for the movie “Alien.” The ...

Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Co AT ABOUT 4 FEET TALL, the great blue heron is the largest heron we have around. The first one of the season showed up on our pond in early July and began to wade ...

The English voice cast for Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron includes Christian Bale, Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh, Mark Hamill, and more. Out Dec. 8.