Darwin himself mistook the bird for a partridge at first. And in his notebooks from 1833, he wrote that the bird had a “high shrill chirp” and that its flesh was “most delicately white ...

In 1833, a young Charles Darwin met an animal in the Falkland Islands that he couldn’t explain: a large, social, strangely inquisitive bird of prey that looked and acted like a cross between an eagle ...

And it didn't take the form of a bird's beak. It wasn't even a living creature. It was a trove of fossils. Never mind the notion of Darwin's finches. For a fresh view of the Beagle voyage ...

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in 1861 just two years after the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, but Archaeopteryx ...

led by John Woinarski of Charles Darwin University. It also contrasts with higher rates of bird extinctions on the island territories of Australia, such as Lord Howe Island, Macquarie Island ...

Darwin thought that evolution took place over ... and the tree finch has a parrot-shaped beak suited for stripping bark to find insects. The Grants have focused their research on the medium ...