Every time a hawk loses a flight feather, it faces a serious aerodynamic problem on its next landing approach. Researchers ...

Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds lived ...

Plumadraco lived 121 million years ago in northeast China Pigeon-sized bird had tail feathers twice its body length Researchers think it moved its tail feathers up and down May 27 (Reuters) - New ...

A newly identified bird from the Late Jurassic is helping fill one of the biggest gaps in bird evolution. Named Zhengheornis buyu, the tiny species had a shortened tail without the fused tailbone seen ...

The body is estimated to be similar in size to a modern robin, while the tail feathers extend to nearly twice that length. One of the feathers in the specimen is preserved almost in full, which is ...

The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes ...

To keep eggs alive, many birds do something far stranger than simply sitting on them. Their bodies physically transform in ...

Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is a living dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 ...

May 27 (Reuters) - New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing off their ...

An illustration shows what a male and female Plumadraco, a bird that lived about 121 million years during the Cretaceous Period in northeastern China, may have looked like. — Photo: Field Museum in ...