They call themselves the Flying Kiwis, an eclectic group of New Zealanders from around the world who, whenever their national ...

Corvids get most of the credit, but pigeons are in the same club as one of the smartest birds in the world. They can ...

Two summers a year? Yes please! Meet the bird that, thanks to its mammoth migration, enjoys two summers a year ...

When we think of penguins, we usually imagine a clumsy, flightless bird braving the Antarctic chill in a permanent state of ...

Every year, billions of birds around the world take to the skies for their annual migration. It’s truly astonishing as these ...

A citizen campaign is returning New Zealand's flightless kiwi bird to the hills around the capital Wellington more than a century after Europeans – and the animals they introduced – decimated their ...

The kiwi, New Zealand’s sacred national bird, vanished from the hills around Wellington more than a century ago, but now the capital's residents are waging an improbable citizen campaign to return the ...

Picture a bird that waddles like a penguin, has the face of an owl, and smells like a musty violin case. Throw in the fact that it can’t fly and weighs roughly as much as a house cat. Sounds ...

Flightlessness has evolved repeatedly and independently across avian lineages, yielding a remarkable array of giant and diminutive species from ratites to extinct ...

A hailstorm struck a zoo in Missouri Tuesday, killing an emu, a flightless bird native to Australia. The Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, 160 miles southeast of Kansas City, said on Facebook that ...

Q. I am pretty sure that ostriches are the biggest birds in the world. But what is the biggest bird in North America? A. The first step is to define “big.” Andrew Lydeard, program coordinator of ...

It's one thing to face down supernatural creatures when you're a rough-and-tumble badass like Resident Evil Requiem's Leon Kennedy. It's another thing entirely to encounter eldritch horrors when ...