South Cumbria has become known for rare birds because of its many wetland areas, including Morecambe Bay and Foulshaw Moss, which are important habitats for many species.  Over the years, there have ...

How can one cat SHED so much fur?! EAGLE (1D: "Crowned" bird of prey) The crowned EAGLE is a species of EAGLE that lives in sub-Saharan Africa. The quotation marks around the word crowned in the clue ...

Ever wondered what role the neck serves? Besides holding the head in place, of course. Depending on the bird's diet and hunting style, necks adapt to help the bird survive. Not only that but sometimes ...

It is not a real surprise that the smallest birds in the world belong to the family Trochilidae, commonly known as hummingbirds. However, even within the hummingbird family, there are large ...

The Rwenzoris’ peaks sprawl across the Uganda/DRC borders, hiding more than 30 glaciers (Mt Stanley’s is the largest but is, like the others, shrinking each year) and are the most challenging of ...

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

A photographer’s Covid-era hobby turned into a four-year project that produced around half a million photos. But one stood out from them all.

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

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Utah biologists have been studying the state’s most elusive bird to learn more about its behavior and how to protect it in harsh mountain environments.

Although Vegavis was first identified 20 years ago, its classification as a modern, or crown, bird species was met with skepticism. At the time, most modern bird fossils were discovered after the ...

At that time, it was proposed as an early member of modern - also known as crown - birds that were evolutionarily nested within waterfowl. But modern birds were exceptionally rare before the end ...