Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud, moaning growl that has earned the bird a mythical status, with some ...

The outer sheaths of birds’ beaks grow continually throughout their lives, but when they are properly aligned, the tips wear each other away and the beak stays straight and normal in length.

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

Birds breathe in dangerous plastics -- and so do we A study finds high levels of microplastics in bird lungs, raising alarms about the pollution humans inhale daily Date: February 27, 2025 Source: ...

The drop chance for a Giant Beak is small, and even if you carve a Yian Kut-Ku there's still only a slim chance of getting one. However, there is a way to guarantee you get one after hunting a ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Two people walk last month across Federal Plaza, outside the Kluczynski Federal Building. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share In its drive to sharply cut spending and shrink government, the ...