Animals have played a multitude of roles in the City of London’s 2,000-year history, so there is a veritable menagerie of ...

Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits ...

A skull fossil uncovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever found-a creature the size of a mallard […] ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

The UK has been declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) - and bird "gatherings" have been banned in England and Wales in response to rising cases of bird flu. Strains of the virus have ...

For example, birds don’t have teeth because a full set of teeth is very heavy. Instead, they have a lightweight bill or beak. Birds also have mostly hollow bones as opposed to solid bones.

Bird beaks come in all shapes and sizes, and through observing those differences we can learn a lot about them. Our education ...

Biermann, W. H., and Voous, K. H., Birds Observed and Collected during the Whaling Expeditions of the Willem Barendsz in the Antarctic (1946–1947 and 1947–48).

Q: The amount of effort that goes into a Christmas Bird Count varies quite a bit across years and count circles. How do you deal with this issue when you calculate abundance trends? How do you know ...