Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Want to know what birdwatchers get for Christmas? Bird books, bird puzzles and bird games, of course. This year Mark and I exchanged Christmas presents in person with our sons and their families and ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

There have been twenty cases of bird flu confirmed in domestic cats in the US ...

Researchers have developed a method to study bird brains by creating digital endocasts from empty cranial spaces in bird ...

A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) and its reflection in water. Courtesy Michael Jury of Mykelphotography.It's difficult to ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

The closest living relatives of birds, crocodillian skeletons photographed at the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Paris. Credit: Aubrey Keirnan (Flinders University) A masked ...