A new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that more than 1,000 bird species became extinct on Pacific islands...
A paper published yesterday in the open access journal PLoS ONE describes a new species of scops owl, called the Rinjani Scops Owl, from the island of...
According to a team of paleontologists from Europe and China, the discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted...
A new species of Cretaceous bird, identified from a fossil found in Liaoning Province, China, suggests some early birds evolved teeth adapted for specialized...
Meet the amazing, beautiful and weird mammals, birds, insects, fishes, arthropods, sponges, amphibians and crustaceans discovered in 2012.
Lesula monkey...
A Goffin’s cockatoo named Figaro makes and uses stick-type tools to rake in food, manufacturing them from different materials and displaying different...
A new study led by Monash University’s Dr Kaspar Delhey has provided new insights into why some birds of the Maluridae family are radiantly blue.
Birds...
A multinational team of ornithologists has discovered two new species of owls in the Philippines.
The Cebu Hawk owl, left, and a pair of Camiguin Hawk...
Cornell University ornithologists have discovered a colorful, fruit-eating bird with a black mask, pale belly and scarlet breast in the remote Peruvian...
In face of what has become a precipitous slide toward extinction across the Asian continent, the vultures of Cambodia have persisted, giving conservationists...
A new study has shown that parental behavior of male blue tits is determined by female ornamentation, as previously predicted by the differential allocation...
The lyrebird is the reigning king of karaoke in the bird world, Australian researchers have discovered.
The Superb Lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, in...
Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago.
This...
Scientists have found prehistoric birds that disappeared 65 million years ago may have employed flight styles different to their modern-day counterparts.
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It’s quite common for a female song sparrow to stray from her breeding partner and mate with the male next door, but a new study by an international...
Australian researchers have found that bird species with multiple plumage color forms within in the same population evolve into new species faster than...
An international team of researchers has found the first evidence of a non-human species cultivating plants for use other than as food.
Spotted Bowerbird,...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of fossil scops owl, the first extinct bird on the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal.
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A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and Indiana University has found that humans move between patches in their memory using the same strategy...
