For years, emus and rheas have been dismissed as some of the least intelligent birds on the planet. But new research suggests ...

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 ...

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

First banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has become a mother once again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

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