Low-risk bird flu was also found on a German farm in July 2015. Wild migrating birds can carry the virus and transmit it to others through their feathers or faeces.

48 Million-Year-Old Prehistoric Bird Preened Its Feathers Just Like a Flamingo Published Oct 18, 2017 at 10:46 AM EDT Updated Oct 18, 2017 at 11:23 AM EDT 48-million-year-old bird fossil excavated ...

Nanostructures preserved in feather fossils more than 40 million years old show evidence that those feathers were once vivid and iridescent in color, paleontologists say.

June 3 (UPI) --Feathers arrived at least 100 million years before birds, according to a new survey.Using new data in the fields of palaeontology and molecular developmental biology, scientists ...

Archaeopteryx was a transitional species between dinosaurs and birds that lived in what is now Germany. Scientists believe birds evolved from theropods, a group of carnivorous dinosaurs that ...

New research, led by the University of Bristol, suggests that feathers arose 100 million years before birds -- changing how we look at dinosaurs, birds, and pterosaurs, the flying reptiles.

A tiny bird from 47 million years ago is the first known pollinator. ... Earliest Bird Pollinator Found in Germany. ... were birds of a different feather.

Which came first, the feathers or the birds? Feathers first, scientists now say definitively. Yet this feathery revelation doesn't arise from discoveries of ancient birds, but of birds' ancestors ...

"It means that the habitat might be of lower quality." Scientists make astonishing discovery while studying urban birds: 'It's more or less a reflection of what they eat' first appeared on The Cool ...

The wonders of bird life at their most captivating: The Bird Photographer of the Year has unveiled the 2021 winning photos of its prestigious competition.