On a remote atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a familiar Laysan albatross, or mōlī in Hawaiian, has landed once again ...

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, has returned to Midway Atoll to lay another egg at 75, reshaping scientific ...

One of the world’s most famous birds has returned to her nesting site. Wisdom, the 75-year-old albatross is known as the ...

Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird at approximately 75 years old, has returned to Midway Atoll to nest for the 2025-26 season. This Laysan alb ...

While America's massive fleet of aircraft carriers is difficult to sink, they are sadly not unsinkable. The title of this article refers to Midway Atoll as an "Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier," but as ...

When artist Chris Jordan first photographed the bodies of dead albatross chicks on Midway Island a decade ago—creating the now iconic images showing bottlecaps and other plastic fragments that filled ...

Nancy Caruso sat on an island in the North Pacific Ocean just inches from an albatross and watched as the large black-and-white seabird with a 12-foot wingspan added grass to its nest to cover up a ...

Two crew members of a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircraft safely secure a Hawaiian Monk Seal for transport. The Coast Guard 14th District partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with ...

Wisdom, a moli (Laysan albatross) and world’s oldest known, banded wild bird has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial. At least 69 years old, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MIDWAY ISLAND — A harrowing United Airlines ...

MIDWAY ISLANDS (KGO) -- A National Geographic photographer joined President Obama for a snorkeling adventure of the Pacific Ocean in the Midway Islands a few months ago. The outgoing president has ...