New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner ...

Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was ...

Study Finds That Birds-of-Paradise Are Biofluorescent Research suggests that "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

Boise-based conservation nonprofit The Peregrine Fund has committed nearly $250,000 to Boise State University in a growing ...

The UK has been declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) - and bird "gatherings" have been banned in England and Wales in response to rising cases of bird flu. Strains of the virus have ...

Over the past two decades, scientists have paid close attention to the spread of bird flu, a disease caused by the H5N1 virus that has high pandemic potential. Last spring, when the virus made the ...

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.” ...

In 2019, scientists rediscovered a species of miniature deer long lost to science within the dry coastal forests of southern ...

Bird flu, or H5N1, has been detected in the U.S. in birds and some mammals, and has sickened more than 65 people, killing one. The virus is considered highly dangerous to humans because it is ...