It is a contagious infection caused by a parasite that effects human, birds and cattle. In birds, it is caused by the parasite Trichomonas gallinae. In birds, it infects the tissues in their mouth, ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6-foot-tall (1.4 meters) bird called Diatryma roamed a warm, tropical swamp in what is now southern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This giant, flightless bird, known for its ...

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that reached ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

In September 2024, Vida Livre Institute, a wildlife rescue center, received an unusual call from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in ...

A snowy morning turns into a backyard drama as woodpeckers, starlings and a flicker compete for space at the feeders, ...

A bird strike! Indeed, a beautiful, barred owl had crashed into the patio door, beak-first. Whether it had broken its neck or ...

Few David Lynch projects ever achieved the mainstream success that his television series Twin Peaks did. In 1990, Lynch and ...

It also has a special weapon, a needled beak that enables it to probe deep into crevices for larvae and eggs of insects ...

Known as Florida's loudest bird, several limpkins haunt the shores of Kings Lake each year, searching for a mate. Once considered endangered, limpkins are a version of a rail, roughly the size of a ...

As I watched a woodpecker banging away at a tree, it made me think, why don’t woodpeckers get headaches or suffer brain ...