Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

Discover the extraordinary prehistoric giants – from mega-sloths to monster sharks – that once made today’s animals look ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age.

Brazil’s Federal Police launched the Blue Hope operation on Wednesday (3) to investigate the outbreak of circovirus affecting Spix’s macaws in Curaçá, in the northeastern state of Bahia. The infection ...

A BIRD of prey has been shot dead illegally in Aberdeenshire, prompting a police investigation. An injured goshawk was found ...

New Zealand is planning to eradicate feral cats across the country by 2050 with the aim of protecting its fragile native wildlife. Conservation Minister Tama Potaka described feral cats as "stone cold ...

Every night (and part of the day) from September through November, hundreds of thousands of birds—red-necked phalaropes, yellow warblers, Baltimore orioles, great crested flycatchers, summer ...

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! From birds with no wings to giant fowl that were once mistaken for predators, here are 6 birds whose strange features may not be what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...