Ducks can wade through icy water thanks to a remarkable heat-exchange system in their feet that protects their warm core.

Dec. 10—We were driving across the Mount Desert Island causeway the other day when I spotted a group of ducks bobbing in the ocean waves. Flashes of white had me guessing that they were either ...

If it looks, walks, and quacks like a certain common North American waterfowl, it’s probably just what you think it is. But when Matt Delvecchio named the brewery he co-founded Duck Foot, he was ...

I’m a big fan of chicken feet. Chicken feet are the flavor-giving ingredient in my mother’s matzo ball soup, and the first item I swipe from dim sum carts. But I’d never come across duck feet on a ...

Watching a mallard duck waddle across a frozen pond completely unfazed by the cold march, I wondered at how I would feel doing the same thing in bare feet. I suspect that pain and misery aside, it ...

This duck is named Buttercup. He was born with a backwards left foot. Buttercup lives in Arlington, Tennessee at the Feathered Angels Waterfowl Sanctuary, where owner Mike Garey decided not only to ...