How a bird flu pandemic could emerge 06:21. The Trump administration has canceled $766 million awarded to drugmaker Moderna Inc. to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses ...

In winter, birds experienced on average a whopping 3.7-degree Celsius increase in temperatures over the 20 years, reducing their potential exposure by only half a degree via their movement north.

While birds probably began nesting in the Arctic even earlier than 73 million years ago, the fossils are the oldest traces of this behaviour found to date. They push back the record of this in ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...

Hickman's Family Farms lost 95% of its Arizona hen population, about 6 million birds, because of avian flu. The company expects layoffs and the end of its inmate labor program but its CEO doesn't ...

But the birds, still busy with construction, showed no signs of completing the nest. On the day of our departure, I had to shut the window. As I carefully pushed it closed, disaster struck.

Birds’ ability to escape higher temperatures also varied by species. Overall, more than 75% of birds managed to reach slightly cooler climes in response to warming temperatures. But some species, like ...

According to the authors, the bones and teeth of adult birds are often too fragile to survive in the fossil record, and those from baby birds are even more delicate. “Finding bird bones from the ...

Migratory bird season peaks in Michigan in May. Dairy and poultry farmers worry that the birds could bring H5N1 avian influenza with them to Michigan and infect their flocks and herds.

Over 480 bird species and dozens of mammal species have been affected. That includes humans. Seventy people in the U.S. have gotten sick with bird flu in the past year, nearly all exposed to the virus ...

The new study suggests that 73 million years ago, birds and dinosaurs lived side by side in the Arctic. Gabriel Ugueto. Early birds were nesting in the cold landscape of the Arctic during the age ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is terminating a contract with drugmaker Moderna to develop a vaccine to protect against bird flu amid the agency’s broader efforts to reevaluate ...