This poor old bird is a dodo. It once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. And it's almost certainly the first animal species that human beings actually exterminated in historic ...

(KRDO) - Captain America, a 24-year-old blue-streaked lory at the Denver ... He was the oldest bird in Lorikeet Adventure, the zoo's interactive exhibit where guests can hand-feed birds.

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...

Wang, the lead and corresponding author of the study. Photograph and interpretive line drawing of the 150-million-year-old bird Baminornis zhenghensis. Credit: Wang Min The evolutionary tree ...

It might be Valentine’s Day – but this weekend is for more than just love birds. The Great Backyard Bird Count is back. Between Feb. 14 and 17, the event invites nature enthusiasts around ...

The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been discovered. The early relatives of ducks and geese lived in Antarctica at around the same time Tyrannosaurus rex ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but looked much more like modern birds due ... million-year-old bird fossil ...

Five-year old budding artist Freya Majury has fallen in love with the birds in her Ballygowan back garden. Along with her mother Sarah and brother Rory, she will be taking part in the Royal ...

A recent fossil find fills in a glaring prehistoric bird gap. The Jurassic period claims Archaeopteryx (sometimes called adeinonychosaurian dinosaur), which, despite their feathered wings, appear more ...