FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Rare Bird Market will host mostly local vendors who sell "obscure and odd stuff," Walker said, including horror-themed candles, taxidermy, wet specimens, bone jewelry, chain mail armor and more.

The second fossil discussed in the study is incomplete, consisting solely of a furcula—a bird bone resembling a fork, formed by the fusion of both clavicles. The researchers performed geometric ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

While much of the skeleton was intact—including the pelvis, trunk, forelimbs and part of the hindlimbs—the skull was not included. The team also discovered another fossilized bird wishbone ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual in the West Midlands region "had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds", but would not say where the farm was.

Flying animals have been perfecting their anatomy for flight for millennia. "We'd need a lot of the other adaptations birds have acquired over the years," Hedrick said.