When you think about birds, you likely don’t consider them to be dangerous or aggressive creatures, aside from a few species.
Our skies are filled with awesome predatory birds, from the enormous harpy eagle to the silent owls, but one raptor is faster ...
An artist's impression of the new microraptor, Jian changmaensis, attacking an early bird. (Lewis LaRosa/Jão Canola) For ...
The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex (including SUE, one of the ...
Scientists say they have observed one of the highest-altitude acts of bird predation ever recorded. By Jason Bittel In January 2023, scientists attached tracking devices to eight grey plovers on the ...
On my recent trip to Houston, I built in plenty of time to explore areas along the Gulf Coast and vicinity. Once outside of the sphere of Houston, one can get into wide-open, sparsely inhabited places ...
The kākāpō individual Hoki as an example of the green feather color polymorphism. Aotearoa New Zealand’s flightless parrot, the kākāpō, evolved two different color types to potentially help them avoid ...
The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...