New esearch shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future migration patterns.

Using mitogenome data from nearly all living and recently extinct New Zealand mainland bird species, researchers discovered many species associated with grass and shrubland, like pīhoihoi, New Zealand ...

When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

Roger Pasquier explains how birds spend the quiet half of their lives even when they're flying and half their brain is awake ...

Ah, the thrill of the chase! Spotting an elusive bird is a birder's dream. These feathered phantoms can be tricky to find, ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

As the weather changes and spring approaches, Arizona residents may see more animals, including Gila monsters, snakes and ...

Here are five more ways that humans have scuppered the love lives of animals.

Here are some animals from dinosaur era which are still alive. The horseshoe crab has been around for over 450 million years. It's armor like shell and blue blood make it a true survivor. The Japanese ...

A new animal-borne virus has been discovered in Alabama. But the creature that carries it can be found along parts of the Atlantic seaboard, as far north as southern Saskatchewan, Canada ...

Culturally, too, the animals are soaring ... of personal relationship with bald eagles," Clark said. New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim, a native of Philadelphia Eagles territory, took his two young ...

Between climate change and the effects of humanity on the environment, many species have been harmed. Here are a few of them that have been led near extinction.