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 ...

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

"Part of what awes you is the bird's aerial grace as it swoops and twists over the trees 'hawking' insects," FWC says. "The ...

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

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...

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

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 ...

As the birds move off to another woodlot, their clucking calls can be heard as they sail overhead in a seemingly never-ending ...

Boatzon looked at the economic and environmental importance of the 10 largest lakes in the U.S. Lake sizes and locations are ...

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

Scarlet macaws hatch more chicks than they can care for. Parents favor older chicks, leading to the starvation of younger ...