The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

With the use of autonomous recording units, or ARUs, scientists can listen to bird frequencies to understand their behaviors.

Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

Scientists say wild tomato plants on the archipelago's western islands are experiencing "reverse evolution" and reverting ...

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

Animals often evolve to have certain characteristics that help them escape predators more effectively. Some of these ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

The team is "here to stay," no matter what, lead researcher Keith Bowers said, amid federal funding changes for scientific ...

Human laughter may trace its evolutionary beginnings to vocalizations made during play. This type of "laughing" is found in many mammals and even in some birds.

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost ...

Sometimes we look right at them and still can’t see them. These birds have taken camouflage to the next level - blending into ...