Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

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

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...

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 ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...

Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt created the character’s high-pitched, electronic chattering by combining his own voice and ...

While it remains seasonal in poultry, the disease is spreading in dairy cows and infecting hundreds of other ...

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 ...

A Washington state resident has been hospitalized with H5N5 bird flu — a strain never before seen in humans. The patient, an ...

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