As thick clouds of smoke rolled across Los Angeles in early January, Allison Shultz opened a freezer and took out a stash of ...

Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...

Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

In general, there are two common reasons why birds evolve flightlessness ... flighted relatives and measured a variety of the birds' feathers, including the microscopic branching structures ...

Feathers, however, predate birds—having first belonged to extinct ... It suggests that only the two-legged, meat-eating dinosaurs known as the theropods developed true feathers, and that feather ...

For two days, Tingley recorded a constant stream ... delicately pointing at the bird’s soiled feathers with a gloved finger. More than a century later, fine particles of pollution still clung ...