Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits ...

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

Bird beaks come in all shapes and sizes, and through observing those differences we can learn a lot about them. Our education ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National ...

Winter poses several challenges for birds. Scarce food supplies and limited water are obvious challenges for nearly all of them. Extremely cold temperatures, strong winds, driving snow and ...

Some establishments are gearing up for a big day, while others are expecting a more subdued turnout, managers said.

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 ...

A mostly-white Red-tailed Hawk was found on Thursday caught in chicken wire on the homeowners' property after it had been ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...