Scientists recreate ancient proto-feathers in chicken embryos, revealing evolutionary resilience in feather development.

Martin the Cockatoo is the only bird in the house, and with four dog brothers, things get interesting. With so much pup ...

Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud, moaning growl that has earned the bird a mythical status, with some ...

North Jersey students are creating a video on climate change impacts to the region's ecosystem. A focus is the declining ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ...

Glace Rone shot a rare, snow-white turkey on the opening day of Mississippi’s spring turkey season. It was a leucistic wild ...

The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture fossil discovered in Italy has revealed something surprising—volcanic ash can preserve microscopic ...

As thick clouds of smoke rolled across Los Angeles in early January, Allison Shultz opened a freezer and took out a stash of pristine white pigeon feathers.

The sweetly hilarious video was uploaded to the TikTok account for @Furbythebirb, and everyone is so floored about how smart ...

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...