A Haast’s eagle attacks a moa pair. John Megahan, PLOS Biology, 3(1): e20 via Wikipedia under CC By 2.5 Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on ...

SAN FRANCISCO – In the classic film “The Birds,’’ flocks of crows and other species suddenly and viciously attack people for no apparent reason. Now another Bay Area-based mystery has ...

How does a bird learn its birdsong? Tomoko Fujii and Masashi Tanaka, from Waseda University, explored what drives a zebra finch to approach and imitate other zebra finches to learn its birdsong in ...

EDWARDSVILLE - There were a few bumps along the way, but overall, the Edwardsville tennis team heads into next weekend’s state tournament in suburban Chicago with plenty of momentum. Led by ...

We had a pretty big day of fact-hunting, so finding the strength to drum up one last list was a real struggle. We sighed heavily as we clicked back over to the “possible topics” note in our ...

An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a world with more plastic. A coot bird in London on a nest made of twigs ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across all 50 states, impacting cows at US dairy farms, leading to human infections and raising ...

These cloths also happened to be diapers — reusable cloth diapers, to be specific. When I asked my neat-freak father, Richard Thomas, why cloth diapers have been his rag of choice for 45 years ...

The “harrowing” finding of plastic in the stomachs of birds — including chicks less than 3 months old — is a stark warning for the health of other species in the marine environment ...

NEW YORK -- Sue Bird is giving another assist to USA Basketball, becoming the managing director of the women's national team. The five-time Olympic champion was named to the newly created position ...

The black-billed magpie has been named Edmonton’s city bird following a public vote that saw the familiar and controversial species soar past five other entrants. The result of the vote that ...

Moderna said Wednesday that an early-phase trial of its mRNA-based vaccine against H5 bird flu in about 300 healthy adults showed “a rapid, potent and durable immune response.” ...