Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

But research on the new skull — and the shape of the brain inside it — isn’t only helping scientists learn more about this particular extinct bird species, but the origins and evolution of ...

Cockatoo Island is an interesting and history-rich UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in the heart of Sydney harbour at the junction of the Parramatta River and Lane Cove River. The island is ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Bird flu's deadly evolution: A new pandemic threat emerges Posted: 5 February 2025 | Last updated: 5 February 2025 Scientists have sounded the alarm as H5N1 bird flu has increasingly shown ...

The evolution of a species can be understood in the context of two major concepts—the cryptic species concept and the phenotypic noise concept. The former represents morphologically indistinguishable ...

The study, published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that a type of cockatoo that inhabits much of New Guinea – the Triton cockatoo – is a distinct species from sulphur-crested ...

Baba Dioum (1937 - current) A recent deep dive into the genomics of several cockatoo taxa by an international team of scientists has revealed these parrots comprise three distinct species — not ...