When birds feed on nectar from flowers, they do more than just get a meal—they play a crucial role in pollination, ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...

A biologist reveals his winter finch forecast using wild food crop data. Find out what birds you can expect to see at your ...

It only takes three seconds for a cheetah to go from 0 to 60 mph — few cars can even do that. But in this incredible video ...

Mollusks are filter feeders that typically make water clearer. But zebra and quagga mussels filtered so much plankton from the water that they starved native mussels and fostered harmful algal blooms.

He was born February 6, 1955, in Jamestown, NY, the son of the late Raymond and Gladys Pedersen Finch. Following high school, Larry joined the U.S. Army serving from 1973 until his honorable discharge ...

While the confiscated birds were from species unprotected under current laws, violations included the lack of capture permits and required health certificates, with 579 birds found dead.

Much like how humans arrange words in a particular order to form a grammatically correct sentence, birds tend to sing sets of notes called syllables in a limited number of combinations.

Birds that lived among the dinosaurs were barely recognizable when compared with today’s bird species. Many sported bizarre features such as toothed beaks and long, bony tails. Vegavis ...

A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows. By Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form ...

It is a nearly complete Vegavis iaai skull, one of the earliest known birds dating back to the latest part of the Cretaceous Period (roughly 69.2 to 68.4 million years ago). The authors generated ...

Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...