The sound of tawny owls makes young European robins eat less during their southward migration. A new study from Lund ...

The giant tetrapod dinosaur Cryolophosaurus may initially resemble a terrifying T-rex, but this 21-foot predator was actually covered in feathers and possessed a distinctive bird-like crest. As the ...

Australian researchers will set sail to study if bird flu has reached remote Antarctic islands as part of the largest ...

In our continuing series on medicine in unusual circumstances, Talha Burki takes the temperature of health care in polar extremes.

I boarded a Hi Fly A340 for a charter flight to Wolf’s Fang Runway in Antarctica, departing from Cape Town. The flight lasted 5 hours and 15 minutes, traveling from 33 degrees South to 71 degrees ...

How did the ostrich cross the ocean? It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of ...

Enjoy our annual celebration of outstanding bird visuals—now featuring new prizes and winners from across the Western ...

For the past three months the chatter of the Arctic Tern colony has served as the soundtrack of the summer breeding season.

Following its summer hiatus, the Margaret Watson Bird Club (MWBC) held its first meeting of the season on Thursday, Sept. 4 ...

Three taxidermied penguins preside over Room 426 in Allwine Hall, standing atop a row of metal cabinets in the back corner. The Antarctic birds are locked in an everlasting staring contest with a ...

Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a ...

An artist’s interpretation of Vegavis iaai diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. A new study in Nature describing a ...