Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

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

A B.C. teen has a suspected case of H5N1 avian flu — the first known human to acquire the virus in Canada. The provincial ...

Research shows that over the past 40 years, butterflies traditionally found in England and Wales have become more common in Scotland.

so it's essential to choose nesting boxes suited to the local birds you want to attract. For example, wrens prefer smaller ...

Between 1994 and 1997, just 47 shorter-length Fokker 70 twinjet were delivered. The F70 had a shorter fuselage than the F100 ...

Fossil of an extinct Phorusrhacid "terror bird" in the Tatacoa Desert reveals insights into ancient predators and ecosystems.

The A-10 Warthog has proven indispensable for close air support, saving countless lives with its ability to loiter over ...

In a paper published in the journal Current Biology, researchers find that despite being masterful fliers, two species of albatrosses struggled to eat during very stormy weather conditions which made ...

The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs at their smallest, but the largest known ...

Some 350 hummingbird species make their home in North and South America. Brightly colored and incredibly fast, these tiny birds can hover in mid-air and even fly sideways and backward. Here are 10 ...

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