A Vancouver-based junior mining company has acquired prospecting permits to explore for diamonds in an area in Nunavut that includes Canada's largest migratory bird sanctuary.
An analysis of proteins extracted from fossils has yielded the first molecular data confirming the hypothesis of a close dinosaur-bird ancestry, scientists say.
In the absence of news reports, bird flu might seem to have flown the coop. Unfortunately, it never actually went away--and is now worse than ever. "There are more flu infections in more countries ...
... European robins.
“Of course,” Gust adds, “this research does not prove that birds actually use this mechanism, only that they could. But, there is a large body of research on birds that is consistent ...
South Korean agriculture officials boosted the country's bird flu risk level to 'orange' this week after recent outbreaks on poultry farms.
WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- U.S. studies of several bird species suggest birds that eat lead ammunition residues contained in the remains of gun-killed animals pose a health hazard.
... bird from the world-famous fossil deposits of Liaoning in China, are published this week in the journal Science in China. Details of the bird's bone structure and feathers are exquisitely preserved.
... , the eyes are said to be the 'window to the soul,' conveying much about a person's emotions and intentions. New research demonstrates for the first time that birds also respond to a human's gaze.
... his colleagues discovered and named a new confuciusornithid bird, Eoconfuciusornis zhengi, gen. et sp. ... Michael J BENTON.
Confuciusornithids are a basal bird group that lived from 120¨D125 million ...
Like humans, birds babble before they sing and new research sheds light on the part of the brain that controls this behavior.
The 131-million-year-old Confucius bird was built more aerodynamically than earlier fliers such as Archaeopteryx.
Individual birds can adjust their behaviour to take climate change in their stride, according to a study by scientists from the University of Oxford.
Great tits adjust their breeding season so that chicks hatch when winter moth caterpillars -- their main food source -- are most plentiful, long-term research shows. ...
Bird flu has spread to the hilly Darjeeling district of eastern India which has been hit by avian influenza several times already this year, a minister said Saturday.
(AP) -- South Korean officials said Monday they have killed all poultry in Seoul, the capital, to curb the spread of bird flu following a new outbreak of the disease in the city.
