Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

On Monday, Dania Sanchez, who was Texas' top birder for 2024, had her turn to catch a glimpse of the rare avian visitor. "I ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

Confectionary, clothing, beauty products, an ornamental skull and a clawed goblet are among a large number of items allegedly stolen by a 31-year-old woman in Tasmania, police say. Following ...

has launched a pilot program on a laying-hen farm to vaccinate poultry against bird flu with the aim of achieving large-scale vaccination, the government said on Monday. Sign up here. The Dutch ...

Large numbers of dead wild birds found recently in Peel are believed to have been infected with avian influenza, more commonly known as the bird flu. Peel Public Health officials didn’t say ...

Credit: Andrew McAfee (Carnegie Museum of Natural History), 2025. A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside ...