Birds Are the Best Part of Spring We all need little signs of spring. When the wind chill dips and another bout of cold weather shows up in the forecast, we start wishing and dreaming of spring more ...

Imagine hiking through New Zealand’s wild Fiordland, mist curling around ancient peaks, waterfalls thundering into ...

A shared shape rule, the power cascade, governs most bird beak growth. It links modern birds with extinct dinosaurs.

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

State lawmakers resist attempts to dethrone Florida's mockingbird as state bird for fourth year, despite new proposals for ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns. Swathes of scientific data deletions are ...