In Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50°C, there lives a small bird with a white back, forked tail and—as we've just ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history of life on Earth. Scientists discovered a new species of flying reptile ...

Learn how to identify a male and female tree swallow. Find out about their nests, song, range map and what tree swallows eat.

The violet-green swallow is a shiny green flier that swoops and soars in the West. Discover where to find them, what they eat ...

A flying relative of dinosaurs, Bakiribu waridza (“comb mouth” in the Kariri language) filtered crustaceans and other small organisms from rivers and lakes, where it was likely swallowed by a predator ...

There are always exceptions, and perhaps you’ve had an especially rewarding bird sighting this fall, but generally, it has been a lackluster season for birds. The winds were all wrong (too much ...

Tree swallows were found to have high levels of chemical pollution near factories and US military bases, per Earth.com. A recent study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry found that ...

A new study has found that tree swallows near U.S. military bases carry higher levels of PFAS chemicals, which experts said could have implications across the food chain, impacting Americans. While ...

Tree swallows in polluted U.S. regions are accumulating high levels of “forever chemicals.” These durable pollutants, used in firefighting foams and consumer products, are found everywhere from soil ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the ...