The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

Bears are symbols of power and resilience. Birds are symbols of freedom and mystery. At first glance, these two creatures ...

Extinct Australian Big Bird, properly termed Dromornis stirtoni, takes featherweight champion at 1,000 pounds, 10 feet tall.

Elephant birds were blind, nocturnal and taller than Big Bird The femur is similar to that of the modern ostrich, which can reach a top speed of 43 miles per hour.

America’s two eagle species are similarly majestic in dimensions, with wingspans of both birds regularly exceeding 7 feet. Even the eagles, however, are dwarfed by our state’s largest bird of ...

Three big birds here now, two to stay the winter, surely guarantee big birding pleasure. After all, birds standing four feet tall (or even a foot tall) and weighing ten pounds ...

Some birds are incredibly strong for their size and can lift surprisingly heavy objects. But, do you know which birds can handle the heaviest loads? These amazing birds are among the strongest in the ...

The ones that are important to this are a very long-billed hummingbird with a large body and a smaller bird with a shorter bill.” The expedition was using mist nets to humanely capture birds for ...

When it comes to feet, the earliest-known bird species had more in common with Velociraptors than cardinals. Modern bird feet have a hind toe that points backward and helps the birds perch on ...