Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After surviving a likely gunshot wound in July, a bald eagle in Missouri is showing an important sign of recovery–keratin ...

The 1% Club featured a professional penguin-tipper on the contestant lineup this weekend. Paul Jarvis was his name and he spoke to presenter Lee Mack in the aftermath of answering the 80% question ...

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous ...

Credit: Facebook Only one of roughly 400 parrot species can't fly—the kakapo. It's not due to injury or laziness. These birds evolved on predator-free islands and never needed wings for escape ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

A sheep infected with bird flu will ring another alarm bell as the virus continues to drift into mammals. It's the first time anywhere in the world that a sheep is known to have been infected.

It also adds to the growing stack of scientific findings that demonstrate “bird-brained” isn’t much of an insult after all. Many of our feathered friends show impressive memory, learning ...

Pitch determines how high or low a sound is — for example, the chirp of a bird versus the growl of a dog. Harmonic structure defines tonal quality, distinguishing a piano note from a frog’s croak.

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

(Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images) Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been ...