Researchers strapped tiny backpacks to hummingbirds to study migration and discovered the world’s largest hummingbird species is distinct from another type of giant hummingbird.

Researchers strapped tiny backpacks to hummingbirds to study migration and discovered the world’s largest hummingbird species is distinct from another type of giant hummingbird.

The Giant Hummingbird of western South America is not one species but two, according to an international group of researchers. The northern population stays in the high Andes year-round while the ...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the new giant hummingbird species as the southern giant hummingbird and the bird in the photo as the new species.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest hummingbird has been hiding in plain sight for centuries — and scientists only discovered the species is distinct from another giant ...

Now, new research has revealed that there are two distinct species of giant hummingbird in South America — the northern giant hummingbird that lives year-round in the Andes, and the migratory ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest hummingbird has been hiding in plain sight for centuries — and scientists only discovered the species is distinct from another giant ...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the new giant hummingbird species as the southern giant hummingbird and the bird in the photo as the new species.

It's the time of year when scientific organizations take a look back at some of the most amazing new animals, plants, fungi and other species they discovered in the past 12 months."Finding and ...