Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

Longer dry seasons could make it harder for birds to access food resources, reproduce, and survive, but fewer rainy days ...

The fossilized leg bone of the terror bird went unidentified for almost 20 years. Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest ...

Nearly 20 years ago, while repairing a fence on his ranch in Colombia, fossil collector César Perdomo found the middle leg ...

From the variegated flycatcher to the Steller's sea eagle, birders seek out those how-did-that-species-get-here moments.

The fossilized leg bone of a giant “terror bird” discovered in Colombia provides new insights into ancient South American ...

Nov. 1, 2024 — New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as ...

Nothing conjures up the feeling of the tropics like giant, lush-leaved plants, and if you live in the tropics or subtropics, ...

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation reported that Florida is known for its abundance and diversity of birds — and ...

Biologists and other experts are still struggling to reach areas of western North Carolina wrecked by storms to assess the ...

On Sept. 7, 2024, British ornithologist Gary Allport and Dutch birdwatcher Jan-erik Nilsen took a boat from Bangladesh’s ...