Finding a mate in the animal kingdom is not easy. It is often a competitive and dramatic process that requires substantial ...

The casque of the cassowary glows blue-green under UV light, revealing unseen patterns that could help distinguish species ...

This October, a Mandarin duck became one of New York’s biggest celebrities, as locals and tourists flocked to Central Park to spot the brightly colored fowl. One enterprising New Yorker even went so ...

Thanks to the developmental fusion of male-female bird twins into one individual, this northern cardinal is half red and half tan -- split lengthwise down its middle -- and is half male and half ...

There are no actual birds in this oddball animation about birds. Instead, it’s filled with strange creatures made of eggs, worms, leaves, and other things we associate with our feathered friends.

Sept 6 (Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling ...