State officials have confirmed avian influenza in poultry among four Ohio counties, though none in Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana or surrounding counties. However, the Ohio Department of Natural ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...

The Ohio Division of Wildlife says bird flu is presumed to have infected the state's wildlife. What, if anything, do you need to do in response?

According to noted ornithologists, there is only one species of ducks that resembles the rubber variety parodied on a Carnival float. That float, entitled “Mama Duck and Duckies,” is spotted ...

This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil is ...