Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ...

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...

Large birds—our closest relations to dinosaurs—are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food. This is the first time scientists have been able to show that ...

Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.

Seen as harbingers of death and disease, staples of horror films and Halloween decor, vultures actually play an important ...

A new study suggests that emus and rheas - and by extension, potentially animals like velociraptors - are anything but ...

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene ...

One branch of theropods were giants in South America while another filled smaller niches, but in Australia they reversed ...

An endangered crow, found only in Hawaii, is flying free again. The alala has survived only in captivity after almost going ...