Analysis of feathers trapped in amber sheds new light on evolutionary path that led to early birds’ ability to fly.

A team of researchers recently set out to northern Alaska to collect avian fossils — and discovered the earliest known ...

That means birds were reproducing in the Arctic during the Cretaceous period. When other dinosaurs still roamed the area. We ...

Spring has sprung in the Arctic, and baby birds are making their way out into the world.Rewind 73 million years ago - it was the same story.That ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...

Over 50 bird bones were recovered, some of them so small and delicate that finding them intact was a rare feat.

In the case of flightless birds, the biggest isn’t always the most terrifying. It is the third-biggest flightless bird that ...

SAN FRANCISCO – In the classic film “The Birds,’’ flocks of crows and other species suddenly and viciously attack people for no apparent reason. Now another Bay Area-based mystery has ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...

A new study has found that birds were raising their young in the Arctic seventy-three million years ago, much earlier than ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.