The the 266th head of the Catholic Church died the day after Easter and one month since his release from the hospital with a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, ...

High fledgling survival in American Kestrels suggests adult mortality and migration risks may better explain their population ...

Imagine stumbling upon a fossil so delicate that it reveals the ghostly outline of ancient feathers, hinting at a lost world ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

New research suggests conservation efforts could more effectively identify and protect bird species at greatest risk from climate change by better understanding the range of specific conditions they ...

A rancher took a backhoe to a critical nesting ground. His conviction, advocates say, “sets a crucial precedent for ...

UConn, 3 p.m. ET, ABC), ESPN will once again offer an alternate broadcast with Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi. The former UConn legends, who went on to have excellent WNBA careers, brought The Bird ...

Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard are going into the Basketball Hall of Fame later this year, not once but twice. And LeBron James and Chris Paul are part of the group that’s headed to the Hall ...

Imagine your spark bird is the bald eagle. You thought you were applying for a summer internship with the Student Conservation Association, thesca.org, during college. But what you were really ...

Who knew that combining a sweet story about an adorable penguin and one about the atrocities of a political uprising in 1976 Argentina could ... Juan Salvador (the bird is named after Jonathan ...

The cougar was euthanized, and his tissue samples, which were tested for a number of diseases, revealed the presence of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu. Less than two weeks later ...