The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

The most beautiful aspect of the world we live in is the diversity within our animal kingdom. Birds are particularly colorful ...

Scientists have observed the highest rate of beak abnormalities ever recorded in wild bird populations in Alaska and the Northwest, a study by two United States federal scientists says. The U.S ...

One bird in each pair was given drinking water enriched with cartenoids; all the birds ate the same grain for food. Within eight weeks, the beaks of the treated males become a deeper red than ...

These 8 fascinating birds may look like penguins at first glance, but they belong to entirely different families and can ...

Call it survival of the seediest. Even though dinosaurs were wiped out when a massive asteroid collided with Earth about 66 million years ago, their only living representatives, birds, managed to ...

Mathematical rule found to have shaped bird beaks for 200 million years Finding universal rules in biology is rare and difficult: there are few instances where physical laws are so pervasive ...