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 ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Lace up those comfortable sneakers, and get out your bug spray and field guides, because we’re about to go birder-watching.

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on seminal TV comedy "MASH," died Friday at her home in New York ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had “successfully restored … the dire ...

The summer concert season is heating up this month, plus there are a lot of Pride and Juneteenth events to check out.

Enter the fascinating world of birdbugs an imaginative fusion of avian and insect traits brought to life through speculative ...

Birds are molting earlier each fall. A University of Utah study links this shift to climate change and its impact on ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.