Parrots living in Sydney have learned how to turn on water fountains for a drink. It's the first such drinking strategy seen in the birds.

Modern cities are evolution engines. Urban snails in the Netherlands and lizards in Los Angeles have developed lighter shells ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

The peacock is famous for its radiant tail, but it’s not the only bird with a particularly well-constructed rear end. Here’s ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

Technology has made it easier than ever to get into birding, which has attracted millennials and zoomers alike.

More: As you slept, millions of birds flew over Indiana. Here's why and where they're headed Some people have taken photos of the moon and gotten silhouettes of the birds passing by, she says.

Header illustration by Emily M. Eng, who finds fluffy owls a hoot. Bird silhouettes from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Data analysis and reporting by Alyssa Fowers, who still thinks the Eurasian ...

Nuclear molecular rates support this hypothesis in reptiles and amphibians but not in mammals, birds, or fishes ... are the fossil calibrations used for estimating divergence times. Silhouettes of ...

An exceptional example of wildlife photography, 'Birder Guard' by Daisymaye, has earned our 'Photo of the Week' (POTW) accolade. This image is superbly captured, showcasing a fine silhouetted ...