If you’ve seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa’s Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking yourself if such a prehistoric-looking, seemingly giant bird could be real.

A small team of biologists and animal movement specialists in the Netherlands and the U.K. has found that birds such as the emu have a grounded running style at medium speeds, allowing them to ...

On May 25, 2024, a photograph went viral on X allegedly showing a giant bird's foot, resembling that of a dinosaur. "A Southern Cassowary claw. Just in case you didn't think that birds are dinosaurs," ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...

We’ve known for a long time that birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, but new clues are shedding light on a transitional phase in how feathers came to be. Feathers are one of nature’s ...

The red earth of northern New Mexico is a portal into deep-time, containing clues about the dawn of a lineage that brings song, color and windborne motion to our lives today. At Ghost Ranch, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it's the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin's creamy blue-green ...