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 ...

Ms Coledale said: "Kuki is fully focussed on sniffing out rats and it's all like a big game for her, really." However, Kuki's ...

Conservationists on Kauai have begun releasing hundreds of thousands of male mosquitoes incapable of reproducing in an effort ...

When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

(SOUNDBITE OF WAVES CRASHING) SOFIA STUART-RASI, BYLINE: On a gray, cloudy day, waves crash against a rocky beach on the island of Unalaska. Megan Dean grips her binoculars against the chilly sea ...

The same strain is linked to the bird flu patient who died in Louisiana. A second type of bird flu has been found in dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai, completed following high-resolution micro-computed tomography of a fossil-bearing concretion discovered ...

A new type of bird flu has been detected in dairy cattle in Nevada, according to the USDA. The strain is different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year. Officials say ...

(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall,File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the ...

A variant of H5N1 bird flu that has circulated widely in wild birds — and in several instances led to severe illness in humans — has turned up in dairy cattle for the first time. The findings ...