A United Nations health agency has called the spread of H5N1 bird flu "unprecedented" and called on world leaders to ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Scientists recreate ancient proto-feathers in chicken embryos, revealing evolutionary resilience in feather development.

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple ... in the embryonic development of scales, hair, and feathers in modern vertebrates.

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...

“People tend to have an unconscious bias towards male birds, and that’s often because they’re brighter and easier to identify ...

Wildlife biologists don’t believe the avian influenza outbreak is affecting Canada goose numbers, but they are scaling back ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

Nearly 400 birds — mostly brown pelicans — were found dead from suspected bird flu in Hatteras, N.C. in late February, an official confirmed to WTKR on Friday.

U. S. State of the Birds Report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, reveals continued widespread declines in American bird populations across all mainland and ...