Birds that lived among the dinosaurs were barely recognizable when compared with today’s bird species. Many sported bizarre ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Ana Soria-Kevy took this lovely photo last fall. She told Patch, "These birds were taking off at the bird sanctuary when I ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

An Italian lawmaker has filed a legal complaint for hunting without a license against Donald Trump Jr. and his hunting party ...

A spokesperson for Worcester City Council said it has been removing dead swans that can be reached from the riverbank amid a suspected bird flu outbreak. However, swans in unreachable areas will need ...

A type of infectious parasite has been spotted inside invasive snail species brought to Georgia, according to the Department of Natural Resources.