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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (WIAT) — Two cases of bird flu have been found in Alabama, resulting in the killing of thousands of chickens to contain the spread of the disease, the Alabama Department of Agriculture ...

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(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new ...