The hoatzin, a bird native to South America ... their chicks are even more bizarre. Young hoatzins have claws on their wings, which they use to climb trees. These claws are a rare throwback to ancient ...

This national bird graces forests and villages across the country. Witness flocks of Greater Flamingos wading gracefully in wetlands like Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch and Odisha’s Chilika Lake ...

Gloria Harris has been running a nohinohi little owl and ruru morepork rescue service for 30 years. "I've probably cared for close to 300 birds," she told Country Life proudly. Recovering birds are ...

Clumsy in the beginning. A little funny looking, too. But, in the end, a majestic soaring, roaring eagle with fangs and claws like a tiger. They’ll always remember the crowd from Auburn 78 ...

"We used birds as our study subject. With 10,000 known species, they are the most diverse class of vertebrates and uniquely suited for exploring evolutionary phenomena. With our method, we were ...

The future airliner will have an open-fan turbofan engine According to the company, the next generation of Airbus airliners will feature wings that mimic those of birds, making them lighter ...

The team successfully transformed scales into feathers They did the tests on chicken embryos by stimulating this pathway The saw the formation of unbranched buds resembling early proto-feathers ...

Youngflesh’s study also finds that while absolute bird wing lengths tended to remain the same over time, they became relatively longer compared to the birds’ shrinking bodies. However, Youngflesh ...