Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

“ Shoo, shoo,” Nimi said, waving her towel at the pigeon perched on the dressing table inside her room. She had left her room ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

These include very noticeable characteristics, such as feathers and a pair of wings. Aside from bats, birds are the only living vertebrates capable of powered flight. Less visible features usually ...

A small medical jet carrying a child patient crashed in Philadelphia, sparking a massive explosion and a flurry of questions.