Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks on Monday in Beijing during a presentation on bird fossils found in ...

A fossilized dinosaur embryo discovered inside a fossilized egg in southern China is reshaping scientific understanding of ...

Scientists are digging into one of evolution’s strangest puzzles — why only certain creatures developed minds that know they ...

Although bird flu infections in humans remain rare, this case marks a significant development in flu surveillance in the U.S.

Washington state health officials have confirmed the first known human death globally from the H5N5 strain of avian influenza, a newly detected variant that has never before been documented in people.

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports ...

"Our research shows that a one-size-fits-all approach to controlling avian pathogenic E coli infections is not effective," said Jai Mehat, BSc, PGCert, PhD, FHEA, coauthor of the study.

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of Jurassic birds, pushing back the origin of birds to the late Middle Jurassic ...

Reconstruction of Triassic Era Reptile (Mirasaura grauvogeli) in natural forest habitat-Credit: Gabriel Ugueto A newly-declared species of 247 million-year-old Triassic reptile and its ridiculously ...

Birds are extraordinary in their diversity, ecological breadth, and global distribution. This makes them a powerful system to study ecology and evolution, particularly as large-scale datasets on ...