Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays. Now, it turns out that many species also have ...
Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...
A pigeon has been found with its wings and tail feathers cut in eastern Kowloon, marking the second such case of bird abuse ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Inside a chilly enclosure, a 7-year-old peregrine falcon named Breland plucked at a frozen rat carcass ...
Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...
Finn moved with purpose, her nose working the wind, seeking the tantalizing aroma of feathers hidden in the tawny grassland ...
The crows here definitely owe something to this woman, who has saved one of their flock from certain death. The woman in this ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...
Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain ...