Most birds lack physical weapons because flight demands light bodies, agility and energy efficiency. Displays and behaviour replace brute force for survival and competition.

What happened when one of nature's pickiest eaters met a huge, extremely adaptable snail? Well, it might be the start of ...

A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...

A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...

Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains.

Check out Manta Sleep and make sure to use bizarrebeasts for 10% off your order! And then, take a nap! About 136,000 years ago, on a coral atoll in the Indian Ocean, there lived a flightless bird. And ...

With its eighth funding renewal, the world-renowned Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve is primed for six more years on the ...

Nature's survival often hinges on intelligence and deception rather than brute strength. Animals like the mimic octopus, ...

New research tracking 109 wild turkeys suggests decades of hunting may be selecting for birds that are harder to harvest if ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...