Half of this week’s The Big Bang Theory — the half in which Sheldon spent almost the entire episode at odds with a bird perched on his windowsill — teetered mighty close to that unfortunate TV trap, ...

For the past four years, around 200 researchers from 20 countries have combined their expertise to work toward a single massive undertaking: creating the most comprehensive bird family tree ever made.

A new family tree of the world's bird species may be the most complete one ever made, and reveals some surprising relationships, as well as showing how characteristics such as birdsong evolved. More ...

Call it the matchup between the Higgs boson and a bread crumb. And the bread crumb seems to have prevailed in this round. The $6.5-billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland -- which is ...

Biologists who study animal behavior suggest that evolution is hard at work when it comes to the acrobatic courtship dances of a tropical bird species. New research from a Wake Forest University ...

The genomes of modern birds tell a story: Today's winged rulers of the skies emerged and evolved after the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and almost everything else 66 million years ago.

The demise of the dinosaurs touched off an evolutionary “big bang” that lasted 15 million years or less and gave rise to all the types of birds we see today, according to the findings from a massive ...

I received some interesting bird-related calls and e-mails this week — a sure sign of spring. Matthew Boliver, of Castorland, in Lewis County, sent me the photo below of a partially white-colored ...

If there’s a factory where birds are built, the workers were clearly smoking something the day they designed the hummingbird. And the ostrich. And the toucan. Imagine, too, the pitch meeting for the ...

Greg Bird started for the first time since being scratched with back tightness before Monday’s game, and he homered Friday in the eighth inning of the Yankees’ 8-2 win over Baltimore. It was Bird’s ...

Scientists already knew that the birds who survived the mass extinction experienced a rapid burst of evolution. But the family tree of modern birds has confused biologists for centuries and the ...