During guided outings in a small motorboat along a Malaysian river, we would also see purple herons, endangered storks, and — a highlight of the trip — an orangutan.

Indian children’s fiction is taking on the climate crisis. There are now mysteries, picture books, modern fables, and ...

During the 1970s, author and photographer Sarah Bird documented small-town Black rodeos in Texas. She turned that material in ...

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history. In this extraordinary encounter, he reveals how this long-lost species has ...

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

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

In the three-point attitude and descending straight ahead, you are utterly ignorant of anything that lies in front of you.

“I’m not worried about any bird flu,” said Stan Tara, a 42-year-old Brooklyn resident, as he purchased a large chicken for $22.50. “It’s the same as you buy from the supermarke ...

A new study published by the Hellenic Ornithological Society (BirdLife Greece) delivers a stark warning: climate change is rapidly making the treacherous journey of migratory birds even more deadly.

A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with nautilus-like ammonites and marine reptiles called ...

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said ...