The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

The phenomenon behind this behavior of birds turns out to be considerably more complex than it seems at first glance ...

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together ...

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory ...

The bird-fish hybrid could one day be used to study aquatic animals underwater and then fly back to the base with data.

To keep eggs alive, many birds do something far stranger than simply sitting on them. Their bodies physically transform in ...

With bright feathers that look painted on, colorful birds are typically pretty and charismatic poster species for ...

Numbers about birds get tossed around a lot, in headlines, nature documentaries, and casual conversation at the backyard ...

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