Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

The research team at New Mexico Tech has constructed and tested pheasant, mallard duck and pigeon drones and robots. Their ...

U.S. officials are proposing tighter restrictions on oil, solar and wind energy development across more than 6,500 square ...

Federal health officials on Thursday called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed ...

New research reveals how parrots and finches develop their extraordinary colours – and shows that evolution is an ongoing ...

In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s song. But ...

Students at Brown University are all-in when it comes to a popular, grassroots crochet organization that has one goal-- ...

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein Autumn, warm weather, bird ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Samuel Henderson, a 10 year-old who can imitate a number of bird calls with surprising accuracy.

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

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link ...