Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers ...

The most striking discovery was a nest built on an abandoned foundation pile in Amsterdam’s Rokin canal. Over decades, it had ...

In our current age, the Cenozoic, “almost everything eats fruit,” Doughty said. It’s now tasty and ubiquitous, but 65 million years ago, it was rare. “It just was a really niche, small thing,” Doughty ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Bird poop on your lettuce might not be as risky as you think. Researchers at the University of California, Davis found that small bird droppings aren't much of a food safety risk for crops, pushing ...

Feb 21 (Reuters) - The price of eggs at U.S. grocery stores has climbed to a record high, nearly doubling from a year ago, as outbreaks of bird flu have led to shortages by wiping out millions of ...

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

A spokeswoman for Defra said the 1.78 million birds culled since the first outbreak on 5 November was a "small proportion" of the industry's total production, which is about 20 million birds a week.

(AP Photo/George Walker IV, file) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners that rely on eggs for their products are facing sticker ...