An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of ground-warbler on Luzon Island of the Philippine archipelago.
Three ground-warbler...
Peruvian and U.S. ornithologists have described a new species of bird in the genus Scytalopus found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Junin Department,...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of scops owl that lived on São Miguel Island, the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, until about 500...
A multinational team of ornithologists has discovered a new bird species in Phnom Penh, the capital and largest city of Cambodia.
Cambodian Tailorbird...
African starlings, a diverse group of primarily brightly colored birds known for their metallic sheens, change color about ten times faster than their...
A newly discovered bird-like dinosaur named Aurornis xui is about 10 million years older than Archaeopteryx, the feathered dinosaur previously considered...
A tiny bird fossil, named Eocypselus rowei, offers clues to the precursors of hummingbird and swift wings.
Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka...
Troodon formosus, a small North American theropod dinosaur, incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds, according to paleontologists at the...
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...
