Across the United States, bird flu is no longer a concern only for dairy and poultry farms — it’s now knocking on the gates of zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, putting some of the nation’s ...

The biggest danger for wildlife is the aftermath. But many species have evolved to rely on the opportunities created by ...

Airlines are constantly disposing of old aircraft and acquiring new ones. The reasons rarely have much—if anything—to do with ...

People outside the fire zone suddenly saw new bird species appear in their neighborhoods. Other animals, like the trout, had no option except to shelter in place. For some long-lived animals ...

Not long after, snakes began appearing on ... or else being held in their beaks. The phoenix was the most sacred and powerful animal in Chu culture, and the motif of the mythical bird’s conquest over ...

No cases of bird flu have been reported at zoos and wildlife sanctuaries in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, although infected waterfowl and other wild birds like the red-tailed hawk, have been ...

Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

Today we meet the long-tailed weasel, a high-energy predator that may be dancing for two very different reasons.The long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata) is known as the comadreja de cola larga or more ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived around 150 million years ago and had a short tail like those of modern bi ...