An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years ago.

When the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo mountains become snowcapped, a flurry of bird adaptations sweeps across the foothills. We marvel at the continent-spanning journeys of migratory birds seeking ...

Researchers found that Natufian culture hunters on Mt. Carmel systematically hunted waterfowl in freshwater lakes during the Ice Age. The bird bones show a rich diet and ancient lifestyle. Long before ...

Pascale Lubbe currently receives funding from the Marsden Fund. Michael Knapp has received funding from The Royal Society of New Zealand (Rutherford Discovery Fellowship). Nic Rawlence receives ...

From the beaches to the prairies. From the towns and the cities. From the hills of Tallahassee, the people shout with glee, “The Florida scrub jay is the new state bird!” If only this were true. The ...