Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...

Mr. Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in the journal Ornithology in November, may be the first documented example of ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

This discovery strengthens the idea that birds had already begun to diversify by the late Jurassic period. The presence of ...

The smooth wings of fruit-sucking moths appear to be ridged like a leaf – but the resemblance is created by nanostructures ...

The Religious ‘Nones’ are now the largest religious cohort in the U.S. (28%). They are more prevalent among American adults ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...

They said such evolution could, in theory, lead to vaccines needing to ... in a farm worker in the West Midlands region. It said bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza was rare and that ...