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 ...

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

Our bird skeleton collection, also called the avian osteology collection, is the largest of its kind in the UK. It contains around 16,600 specimens, including complete and partial skeletons and skulls ...

It's difficult to know what birds 'think' when they fly, but scientists in are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists and neuroscience researchers ...

It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads.

“While ‘bird brain’ is often used as an insult, the brains of birds are so large that they are practically a braincase with a ...

in 2016 and was immediately recognised as significant because of the rarity of a full bird skeleton, particularly one of that age. But Daniel Field at the University of Cambridge says it wasn't ...

The award will support ongoing research into the role of inflammation in animals from birds to mammals, work that has also implications in human medicine.

Illustration of a Vorompatra (Elephant bird) skeleton. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sep. 12th 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.