Paleontologists discover a fossilized bird with its egg still inside from northwestern China. The study was led by Alida ...

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

and one of the elephant bird eggs is on display in the Bird Gallery. The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from the Eocene, Miocene and Pleistocene. In addition to recently extinct ...

Insights from this research could help scientists trying to determine whether a fossil bird, or a feathered dinosaur ... that would hunt them or steal their eggs, they sometimes settle there ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...

Even the way a bird reproduces is related to flight. Instead of carrying the extra weight of developing young inside their bodies, they lay eggs and incubate them in a nest. The fossil record ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings. A 150 million-year-old fossil reveals early bird ...

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

When birds land on an island where there aren't predators (including mammals) that would hunt them or steal their eggs, they sometimes ... to determine whether a fossil bird, or a feathered ...