Paleontologists working in China have unearthed the first fossil of a dinosaur that appears to have had full-fledged feathers  a finding they say settles once and for all the debate over whether ...

Spring bird migrations are picking up as shadows shorten on the winter landscape. So it's no surprise that recently in Silver Spring, Maryland, I stumbled on a group of birders with binoculars and ...

There are all sorts of birds. Some birds spend their entire lives living in total darkness in caves, others can soar higher than the highest mountains, while other birds can dive 50 metres underwater ...

We don’t typically think of birds as travel buddies, but companionable parrots may enjoy going to work with you if pets are allowed (the late, great Larry was popular at both my office and my ...

As anybody who has seen “Jurassic Park” knows, the T-rex is a pretty fearsome dinosaur, but it was the blitzing, fleet-footed velociraptor that inspired the true fear in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 summer ...

Whether it's a common sparrow or a rare warbler, it's a human instinct to watch birds. At least, that's the premise of Jonathan Rosen's new book, The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature, ...