The great Indian bustard is critically endangered, but the Indian government has found a clever way of breeding the species ...

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

Irish names for goldcrest, Cíorbhuí, ‘yellow crest’, and Caipín dearg, ‘red, glowing cap’, both reference the distinctive crown A resident here, the tiny bird is found in a variety of ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Paleontologists first described Vegavis 20 years ago, but many were skeptical that it represented a modern or crown bird species. Most modern bird fossils that had been unearthed at that point ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.