At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Anna’s hummingbirds have evolved to have longer, larger beaks to access backyard feeders in urban areas. It could be a step ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

This data came from hundreds of studies written from 1990 to 2024, as well as additional taxonomic information on more than a thousand birds not included in those studies. This data is now part of the ...

Published in Nature earlier this year, the study by a joint team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fujian Institute of ...

History never ceases to surprise us with the passage of time and the discoveries that come to light. The latest one has been ...

Christopher de Vinck recalls the time when he saved a bird trapped in his walls. Perseverance is the key to success, ...

Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have released the first broad-scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis linking the amplitude, or volume, of a bird's song to its vocal frequency, ...

BEIJING: A groundbreaking fossil discovery in Zhenghe county, Fujian province, has reshaped our understanding of avian ...