New research from Waseda University shows that zebra finches use their amygdala brain region to choose which older birds to ...

According to a new study led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, among others, the answer is not only “yes”, but “yes, and we should ...

Birds stunning feats of travel are awe-inspiring, making it that much more tragic when they are cut short by a deadly ...

How does a bird learn its birdsong? Tomoko Fujii and Masashi Tanaka, from Waseda University, explored what drives a zebra ...

It's not a sound commonly associated with birds. But a colony of flesh-footed shearwaters 'crack and crunch' because they've ...

The animal kingdom has many creatures with strong odors for defense. The stinkbird or hoatzin smells like manure due to its ...

The heath hen once fluttered across the eastern U.S. in huge numbers. By the late 1800s, however, it had retreated to ...

The Mississippi Flyway sounds like an area of the sky managed by the FAA, but this heavily trafficked route is more often populated by birds ... places in southwest Tasmania to their winter ...

The Washington Post worked with bird-sighting lists from eBird to determine the most common migratory birds every month from February through May in each county in the contiguous U.S. in 2023 and ...

The RSPB's annual Big Garden Birdwatch has shown that while house sparrows are still our most common bird, followed by the blue tit, starlings have been bumped down to fourth place by the woodpigeon.

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotech company focused on bringing back extinct species, used ancient dire wolf DNA to alter common gray wolf genes ... Also on Colossal's de-extinction list are ...