The “losers” are exactly the ones you want to protect.
Cockatoos can create and manipulate tools, study suggests
Bird-brain? Hardly an insult.
Dinosaurs laid colored eggs and passed this trait on to birds, new study shows
Dinosaurs developed colored eggs for the first and only time in history, a new study suggests.
Neanderthal child was eaten by giant bird
Talk about a gruesome story — yikes!
Scientists discover new hummingbird species and it’s almost extinct already
A remarkable finding, already highly vulnerable.
Biologists discover new bird species in Africa — and it’s already in trouble
There’s some good news, but also a lot of bad news.
How birds stay slim even when they overeat
It’s not only about what you eat — it’s also about how you use that food.
Scientists analyzed the composition of dinosaur DNA — and it’s really similar to birds’
Life, uhm, finds a way.
Small arms, tongue-tied: T-Rex couldn’t stick its tongue out
Put that tongue back in, Jurassic Park!
How the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs spared ground-dwelling birds
Most birds could fly by that time — but it was the ones that couldn’t that survived.
How tooth wear sheds light on the predatory lives of dinosaurs
Not all dino teeth are made the same…
Mesozoic baby bird fossil sheds new light on evolution
It’s impressive that we can learn so much about something so fragile, from so long ago.
Birds of a feather — A story of Vikings and pillows
Identifying feathers could be extremely useful.
Firehawks: In Australia, birds of prey are intentionally setting the forests on fire
There’s a new arsonist in town — one with wings instead of hands.
Old-growth forests offer safe haven to bird species struggling with climate change
They’re really nice cool places for raising baby birds — or fo rest!
Researchers discover astonishingly intact, 48-million-year-old bird fats in fossilized gland
An incredible find.
Carefree Crow Hitches a Ride on the Back of Bald Eagle
Don’t mind me, just hitching a ride.
Book Review: ‘Birds of Kruger National Park’
It’s as good a bird book as any, and I’d recommend it to everyone visiting Kruger Park as well as other, similar, habitats across the continent.
Chinese pandas will slash over 2.74 tons of CO2 emissions in the next 25 yeas — because they’re solar plants
Best. Story. Ever.
Why do bird eggs come in so many different shapes ? Look to the wings, biologists say
The best predictor of long or pointy eggs is a bird’s flying ability.