Birds of a feather flock together but strong pairing in geese has been shown to produce better breeding results, according to a new study. Focusing on a group of captive greylag geese, bird behaviour ...

Migration already has been heavily altered by building and development and the loss of green spaces along the major migratory ...

"Personality traits in animals can be linked to successful love matches and reproductive success," researcher Sonia Kleindorfer said.

Avian flu in dairy cows could stick around on US farms forever, and is raising the risk of outbreaks in mammals—including ...

A little yellow-and-white bird that prefers to date its mates in an idyllic island lifestyle rather than fly to the mainland to mingle is an example ...

Millions of birds migrate every year to escape winter, but spending time in a warmer climate does not save them energy, ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team showed that a group of highly divergent mammals known as Afrotheria and distantly ...

Diversity in its complex shape among animals has long been thought ... which is the intrinsic capacity for adaptive evolution ...

Aotearoa New Zealand is a land of birds, from the smallest of wrens to the mightiest of moa. The ancestors of some species ...

Find out the different ways scientists have of describing what species are, how they form and how many there are on Earth.

In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house ...