Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The club-winged manakin is a small passerine bird that is a resident breeding species on the western slopes of the Colombian Andes ...

A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed the oldest evidence for birds eating leaves, ...

Birds may look remarkably familiar today, but their skeletons carry clues to a far more turbulent evolutionary history. A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan has used artificial ...

Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a new species of sandgrouse in six to nine million-year-old rocks ...

The dodo bird is perhaps the most famous example of an extinct animal, one that’s been the source of fantasy and fiction, and also nonfictional human curiosity. The squat, flightless bird—which was ...

The club-winged manakin is a small passerine bird that is a resident breeding species on the western slopes of the Colombian Andes and in the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador.© ibrahim ...

While most birds sing using a vocal organ called the syrinx, the male club-winged manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) does something truly unusual: it plays music with its wings. Hidden in the cloud ...