Explore how the vulturine guinea fowl’s striking blue and white feathers serve more than beauty. From structural coloration ...

Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the UCLA campus, students weren’t the only ones affected. A small brown bird called the ...

Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden world 3.6 kilometres beneath the Greenland Sea, where methane mounds and life thrive in complete darkness. The discovery could transform climate science and ...

Pluribus' Episode 8 kills the Animal Hivemind Theory with one dog scene and raises the human stakes for Carol in a brutal new ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than once believed.

Astronomers report a strange cosmic blast that looked like a kilonova, then behaved like a supernova, hinting at a possible first “superkilonova” and leaving scientists debating how stars truly die.

Some of the world's leading experts have now revealed what noises life beyond Earth might really make - and they say Steven ...

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...