The asteroid impact that eliminated non-avian dinosaurs destroyed global forests

Ichthyornis dispar holds a key position in the evolutionary trail that leads from dinosaurian species to today's avians

The 1,500,000 penguins are located in the Danger Islands, a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula’s northern tip

The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs

A new study involving Iowa State University researchers explores how a mutualistic, or mutually beneficial, relationship between birds and chili peppers in the Mariana Islands helps chili peppers grow in the wild

The study has important implications as coffee production is an increasingly important driver of landscape transformation

Mammals and birds may have a better chance of evolving and adapting to the Earth's rapidly changing climate 

A closer look at genetics and feathers reveals first-ever hybrid bird species living in the Amazon rainforest

Finding underscores that animals beyond humans and primates show abstract intelligence

The arrival 36 years ago of a strange bird to a remote island in the Galapagos archipelago has provided direct genetic evidence of a novel way in which new species arise