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 ...

But when an animal perceives a threat, its body is flooded with adrenaline, cortisol, and other hormones to bring their ...

New study suggests apes use body parts to communicate. Researchers found links between ape gestures and human language.

Ice has a remarkable ability to preserve history, which is why we often say something is "frozen in time." When temperat ...

Many feathery dinosaur fossils found so far are from small animals, and Juravenator is among the tiniest of all. The ...

It is not inevitable that H5N1 will develop into a pandemic -- if we act now. Unfortunately, instead of urgent action, we ...

Like humans, parrots have distinct vocal dialects and, like humans, they learn those dialects from their family, so those ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, you'll find these birds constantly perched atop buffalo ... As their name suggests, carrion beetles eat dead animals. These insects also lay their eggs on ...

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 ...