Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

An island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, where half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed, is under threat ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

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

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading ...

Skeleton of the terror bird Titanis walleri at the Florida Museum of Natural History. (Amanda via Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic) (CN ...

Surprisingly, the answer is in the toaster. It might seem strange to put frozen potato in your toaster, but Birds Eye says it ...

Phorusrhacid birds, better known as "terror birds," were some of the most impressive predators to ever walk the Earth.

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the ...

A common way ecologists predict population counts may be an unreliable way of forecasting future bird counts in urban areas, meaning scientists may be overestimating and underestimating the losses of ...

A teenager in British Columbia, Canada, has contracted the H5 strain of bird flu, marking the ... exposure to infected animals was identified. All previous cases in the US, beginning in 2022 ...

Months of hot and dry weather, with only 23mm of rain recorded over seven months, drove some species to seek food and water in the city.