Birds are molting earlier each fall. A University of Utah study links this shift to climate change and its impact on ...

At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

Birds regularly shed and regrow their body and wing feathers in a process, called molting, that is critical for flight, ...

And that plan is ruffling some feathers as NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce ... have maintained a list of the official English language names for birds. Scientists normally prize stability in names ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.