As noted in our coverage last week, three non-eponymous species will be renamed. That includes the shearwater above, as flesh can come in many colors besides a pinkish-beige.
With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people came back.
The “ultrablack” fabric could soon become part of cameras, solar panels, telescopes, and more.
“If you’ve ever felt like your car is a magnet for bird droppings, you’re not wrong.”
It's possibly the first known bird, or any vertebrate for that matter, to hybridize as a result of climate change.
Yes, that seabird soaring above your head will poop on you—for very scientific, evolutionary reasons.
New research finds that “tit divorce” is less arbitrary than biologists thought, revealing a complex social side to these common European songbirds.