Once abundant throughout America's eastern forests, this vibrant green and yellow parakeet was the only parrot species native to the eastern United States before its tragic extinction in the early ...

For fungal spores inside the lumps, getting gulped by a bird could beat just drifting ... So getting an idea of what fungi the now-extinct moa ate helps the team figure out how New Zealand ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Farmers and pet owners are concerned about the recent bird flu outbreak. Waterfowl in Buncombe County, North Carolina tested positive for the disease last week. But the bird ...

In December, the Federal Highway Administration awarded the first grants under a new $125 million Wildlife Crossings Pilot ...

Though no human cases of bird flu have been detected in North Carolina as of Feb. 4, the disease is certainly present. In January, bird flu was detected in a dead waterfowl at Lake Julian Park in ...

The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Vegavis iaai that lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, when Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America and just ...

The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Vegavis iaai that lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, when Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America and just ...

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when Tyrannosaurus rex ruled North America. The fossil, a nearly complete 69-million ...

The fossil, a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull, belongs to an extinct bird named Vegavis iaai and was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Palaeontology Project.

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...