A new study examines how the geographic characteristics of the world's islands influence seasonal variation in the number of bird species. The study determines how seasonal species richness of birds ...

The key characteristics of birds which allow them to fly -- their wings and their small size -- arose much earlier than previously thought, according to new research that examined closely the Paraves, ...

This news release is available in Spanish. 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs, as we think about them, became extinct, but certain reptiles and birds survived this mass extinction. The birds that ...

These lessons were designed to accompany the first two parts of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was developed primarily for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or middle school ...

Yes and no: It depends on how you classify animals. There are two main classification systems – the Linnaean system which groups organisms by characteristics and the phylogenetics system, which ...

Old-growth forests and managed forests with old-growth characteristics can provide relief from climate change for some bird species, research suggests. Old-growth forests and managed forests with ...

A new dinosaur species has been identified, and it’s a birdlike creature (pictured) that’s 15 million years older than the first bird. Haplocheirus sollers is another dinosaur whose proto-bird ...