Contaminated pet hair used to line birds' nests has been killing off songbird chicks in numbers, the Guardian reported. The researchers also tested all the nests for specific insecticides and found 17 ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric "terror bird" discovered in South America might represent the largest known member of its kind found to date, a study ...

The discovery of a remarkably near-complete fossil skull of the earliest known modern bird may help settle a long-standing debate about the evolutionary history of our feathered friends. The specimen ...

Wild birds living near urban environments may likely carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria and pass that on to humans. As the Guardian reported, researchers found that wild, urban birds carry many more ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid impact triggered the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. Yet, some early birds, ...

Researchers from Charles Darwin University in Australia have found that ordinarily territorial birds are forming alliances with other bird species to access water sources safely. While heartwarming, ...