Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

By Alimat Aliyeva Scientists have revealed that a 69-million-year-old animal skull discovered in Antarctica belongs to ...

The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...

The restaurant named best patio in the Charlotte area is closing after five years — however, its owners are going to open a ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

A curious moment for residents in Asturias, Philippines, on January 26: a huge bird was seen stretching its wings on top of a power pole. Bystanders were amused by the feathered flier, which looked ...

Digimon can undergo many evolutions, but some of them don't make much sense, leading to a lot of design whiplash.

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany's Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird's herbivorous ...

Last week, there was a death from the bird flu. Where do things stand today? Andy Pekosz: We're seeing signs that this virus is really moving into humans. There was an infection in a person in ...

“It took me three-and-a-half-years to click that one picture,” Raghav Mehta said, proudly standing in a gallery surrounded by the passion of an engineer turned wildlife photographer, with a deep love ...

UNDER the above heading in your issue of January 18, 1872, Dr. Elliot Coues describes the peculiar movements made by the bones of the wing of the bird in flexion and extension. It may interest ...