"Officials have identified the cause of death," Duolingo said. "Thank you for holding space for Dualingo." The mystery was solved around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon when the co ...

Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, is the world's oldest known wild bird. She also just became a mother yet again.

A small population of California burrowing owls is getting a helping hand when it comes to romance—from a team of devoted ...

Scientists have for the first time demonstrated play-like behavior in flies. They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly visited a carousel.

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

Decades of citizen science in Alaska helped researchers figure out how one of the biggest wildlife die-offs -- that of the seabird the common murre -- unfolded.

After two trilogies spanning a couple of decades, Universal is bringing Jurassic fans a fresh start in the world of dinosaurs in modern-day life ...

Now, more than a decade later, new analysis of the fossils has found that they belong to a new 73-million-year-old species, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

(Reuters) - Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in ...