From the blue-footed booby’s clumsy dance steps to the superb bird-of-paradise’s dramatic feather display, these are eight birds that take dating rituals to bizarre extremes. It’s proof that when it ...

When it comes to animals romancing in the wild, things get weird—really weird. Some animals offer bizarre gifts, some put on ...

A "weird puking bird" with a bizarre mating dance has won New Zealand's annual avian beauty contest, triumphing after British comedian John Oliver launched an unlikely global campaign. The ...

With voting juiced by a decidedly partisan John Oliver, the puteketeke bird was crowned the “Bird of the Century” in New Zealand. After it pulled in more than 290,000 votes, “puteketeke pandemonium ...

A shaggy, white-furred bird at least eight feet tall stands in a desolate polar landscape. A soundtrack of strange clicks and mechanical whirs plays over grainy footage of a human cautiously ...