Swallow-tailed kites flash overhead in Florida during the spring months as they hunt just above the tree canopies.

The Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus is a distinctive marsupial carnivore endemic to eastern Australia, where it is widely distributed from north-eastern Queensland to Tasmania. Three separate ...

Pugsley, a 2-year-old grey Maine Coon from Minnesota, recently won the record for having the longest tail for a domestic cat, with his fluffy extremity measuring 18.5 inches long (1.5 feet), the ...

The Minnesota Maine Coon and his 18.5-inch tail officially took the Guinness World Records title on March 26 Guinness World Records And the world record for the longest tail on a living cat goes ...

Meet the kakapo—a chunky, moss-green parrot that looks like it waddled out of a fantasy novel and forgot how to fly. This New Zealand native carries one of the bird world's most tragic and oddly ...

A sheep infected with bird flu will ring another alarm bell as the virus continues to drift into mammals. It's the first time anywhere in the world that a sheep is known to have been infected.

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

A new study has discovered that birds in the Galapagos Islands are changing their behavior due to traffic noise, with those frequently exposed to vehicles showing heightened levels of aggression.

Come March and something very special is happening in our hedgerows. In parks and gardens across the UK, birds are preparing to welcome in the next generation by building nests. March to September ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

"A wedge-tailed eagle, being a very heavy and a very intelligent bird, they do get very stressed in captivity if they don't have access to space and flight," Dr Peacock said. "So we needed him ...