Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the hellbender or the goblin shark? Typically, animals get their names ...

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye. For the first time, scientists ...

The idea ostriches bury their heads when they feel threatened is thought have come from Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder around 2,000 years ago. But is it true?

It’s the first time a Northern Lapwing has been identified in the western Algerian steppes and is considered a “passing visitor,” researchers said. The sighting “confirms the importance of this area ...

Like the bird in the video, cormorants will often toss their head and neck around, using gravity and the fish’s own downward momentum to help swallow it.

Owls should be able to rotate their heads a full 360 degrees, according to an analysis of the birds’ skeletons and muscles – but some researchers still have their doubts.

By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The votes are in for New Zealand’s Bird of the Century poll and the winner by a significant margin, getting more than 290,000 votes, is the Australasian crested ...

Like the head-in-the-sand myth, none of what Job says about the ostrich is true. Because ostriches cannot fly, they make their nests on the ground.

A bird landed on the head of Fox News reporter Peter Doocy while he was reporting live from outside the White House on Friday. Doocy was standing on the White House lawn speaking with his ...

This essay was also published in slightly different version in African arts (Los Angeles) 3 (3) 1970, pages 8-17, 74-80. Discussion of the symbolism and iconography of birds on Yoruba beaded crowns ...

New Zealand’s national bird, the kiwi, came in second with 12,904 votes while the kea, a species of large parrot often described as one of the most intelligent birds in the world, landed in ...

New Zealand’s national bird, the kiwi, came in second with 12,904 votes while the kea, a species of large parrot often described as one of the most intelligent birds in the world, landed in ...