A genetic study published in PLOS Biology in 2005 revealed the eagle’s closest living relatives are among Australia’s tiniest ...

Big fossil birds such as Diatryma, for example, lived among vast forests around 50 million years ago when mammal carnivores were small and didn’t have as strong an influence on the prehistoric ...

Named for the crone-bird hybrid of Greek mythology, the appearance of this large and majestic raptor is worthy of the ...

We’re all used to seeing birds like pigeons on city roads, parrots that talk, or eagles flying high in the sky. But the bird ...

Among the birds, the eagles are the most formidable and dangerous of the lot, but one extinct eagle puts all the others to ...

Pawhuska, Oklahoma is exactly that kind of revelation – a small town tucked into the rolling hills of Osage County that ...

The blue-eyed ground dove is one of Brazil’s hidden treasures, but there are only around 50 to 249 of these birds left in the ...

Only after considerable probing do we realise that birds can come in all shapes and sizes, features, colours, voices, and other parameters. Let us find out which is the largest bird in the world.

Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that three-quarters are declining across their ranges, ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

The Pelagornis belonged to the family Pelagornithidae. These birds existed from the Late Paleocene age to the Late Pliocene ...