Bird flu “is adapting to mammals, and it continues to show new tricks,” Nelson tells The Verge. The virus is spreading widely ...

COVID-19, scientists are watching another virus warily: H5N1. It’s been circulating widely in the U.S. — and now, wild birds ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic ...

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

In this week's Short Wave roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber talk about the origins of life on Earth, what bird brains illuminate about human speech and how ADHD is mischaracterized on TikTok.

For decades, the number of salmon in the river has sharply dropped, but now scientists believe they just might have a ...

Take precautions around sick or dead wild birds, experts recommend. But you can keep your bird feeder up. Despite the spread ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the man in charge of the USA's health policy, has come up with a new plan for tackling the potential threat of bird flu: let it spread like wildfire through farms. Currently, ...

Scientists have given a definitive answer on the age old debate of whether the chicken or the egg came first, and there ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

Scientists have long thought intelligence tends to develop through social interactions with an animals’ own species.