and identify hundreds of small birds and record their diets of seeds. But for the Grants, the rewards have been great: They have done nothing less than witness Darwin's theory of evolution unfold ...
New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the ...
"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...
A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...
A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.
THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...
A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...
Researchers from the UK and China have found that living birds have a more crouched leg posture than their ancestors, who are generally thought to have moved with straighter limbs similar to those of ...
That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...
Over the years, the theory of evolution by natural selection has itself ... we are to get ahead of a bird flu pandemic, as well as understanding how species will adapt to climate change.