Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

A study on bird intelligence found that emus and rheas can solve puzzles to access food, proving they can innovate.

The proof-of-concept study is one of the first to combine B and T cell analysis and potentially paves the way for tests that ...

During the fiercest cold snap in years, dairy farms in Woodbury, Watertown, Bethlehem and Morris hold more concentrations of ...

Birds Are the Best Part of Spring We all need little signs of spring. When the wind chill dips and another bout of cold ...

Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.

“Most of the time it could be carried by maybe rodents who go outside and they get exposed to wild birds. It could even be ...

A new study measuring the cognitive skills of paleognaths – the small-brained, generally flightless, and more stereotypically ...

Large birds—our closest relations to dinosaurs—are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food. This is the first time scientists have been able to show that ...

Seen as harbingers of death and disease, staples of horror films and Halloween decor, vultures actually play an important ...