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Some 150 million years ago, Europe was tropical — and mostly underwater. The entire continent was closer to the equator than it is today, and what is now Germany and its neighbouring countries was ...

When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los Angeles city birds responded just as quickly, with measurable shifts in beak ...

Researchers are not just worried about the virus popping up on American farms. Other types are causing trouble around the world. By Apoorva Mandavilli In the United States, the term bird flu has ...

A woman's theory about birds has gone viral, as people looked around their own homes and found evidence. TikTok user @corndogcalamari, who asked for her name not to be used, is 31 and Vietnamese ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...

Birds, the warm-blooded and feathered vertebrates, are being used to put romantic partners to the test. A relationship experiment dubbed the "bird theory" is making the rounds on social media. It ...

After a summer lull in U.S. cases of avian influenza in both poultry and dairy cattle—and no human infections reported in the country since February—the virus is back. The currently circulating bird ...

Across several national parks in the Sierra Nevada, researchers found that the populations of some bird species grew rapidly after fires and remained higher even decades later. Scientists already knew ...

A male blue jay on the left, a female green jay on the right and a hybrid offspring of the two species in the center. Travis Maher / Cornell Lab of Ornithology / Macaulay Library (left); Brian Stokes ...

Joan Strassman wrote a book, The Social Lives of Birds, and this piece might increase sales of this book since it is about the same topic and is cited. The late Oxford University biologist William D.