Dr. Jean-Baptiste Thiebot, a marine biologist at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues have documented nearly 200 cases...
Two bird species that look the same, but have songs so different they can’t recognize each other, should be considered distinct species, according to...
The 70-million-year-old fossilized remains of three juvenile oviraptorids from the Nemegt Formation of Southern Mongolia are the first evidence of ‘communal...
Olfaction (sense of smell) is a key factor in long-distance oceanic navigation in birds, according to a new University of Oxford-led study.
Cory’s shearwaters...
A new hummingbird species, called the dry-forest sabrewing, has been discovered in the tropical forests of eastern Brazil.
A young male of the dry-forest...
Palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) not only play the drums, they craft the sticks too, according to new research from scientists in Australia.
Male...
A new species of parrot has been discovered in the tropical forests of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
Male (right) and female paratypes of the blue-winged...
A team of archaeologists from Belgium, the United States and Egypt has uncovered some previously unknown rock inscriptions, which include 5,200-year-old...
A critically endangered bird species called the São Tomé grosbeak is the world’s largest canary, 50% heavier than the next largest species, according...
Progura gallinacea, a species of extinct giant brush turkey that lived in Australia during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene (1-3 million years ago),...
Male great tits (Parus major) choose neighbors with similar personalities to their own, according to new research from the University of Oxford, UK.
Johnson...
Paleontologists have long wondered what the earliest dinosaur relatives looked like. Most assumed that they would look like dwarf dinosaurs and walk on...
Neanderthals’ cognitive abilities are a hotly debated topic, but a bird bone fragment found at a Middle Paleolithic site in Crimea, Ukraine, features...
According to a study led by University of Exeter researcher Daniel Cox, people living in neighborhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely...
The fossilized leg bones of a giant penguin that lived 61 million years ago have been discovered in New Zealand.
Artist’s impression of a group of Waimanu...
According to new research published in the journal Current Biology, a key area of the hummingbird brain processes motion in a unique, unexpected way.
The...
