Ifrita kowaldi, a blue-capped handful with the tree-poking habits of a nuthatch, concentrates in its feathers and skin the same alkaloids that defend poison dart frogs. This explains why the bird’s ...

Your bird field guide may be out of date now that University of Florida scientists discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird on a South Pacific island. Your bird field guide may be out of date now that ...

More than two decades after it was first spotted, a brightly colored Peruvian songbird has finally gotten a proper name. Ornithologists from Louisiana State University first spotted what would be ...

The Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve in Peru has often been described as the most biodiverse rainforest in the world. For example, in recent decades, scientist have discovered several new bird ...

After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and a HG Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said Wednesday they have finally solved the riddle of the ...

Named Vorombe titan – Malagasy for 'big bird' – the creature would have stood at least 10 feet tall, and had an average weight of 650 kilograms, making it the largest bird genus yet uncovered PARIS, ...

Zero-Lives has put up some kick-ass illustrations of the Angry Birds befitting a classic ornithological documentation on his Flickr account. The Angry Birds are classified as "Genus Aves Iratus" and ...

Early this year, a Rutgers University entomologist who had discovered a new species of South American cockroach announced a contest to give it a scientific name: The genus Xestoblatta already existed, ...

Researchers report the first description of the geologically oldest fossil securely attributable to the genus Archaeopteryx, and provide a new diagnostic key for differentiating bird-like dinosaurs ...

PARIS (AFP) - After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and an H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said on Wednesday (Sept 26) they have finally ...