DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

In the summer of 1948, naturalist Charles J. Guiguet spent four months on the Goose Island Archipelago, a cluster of ...

Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding that sounds like something out of a scientific whodunit. Still, it's real: ...

Bird Travels From Alaska to New Zealand Non-Stop for 11 Days Flying 7500 Miles Without Food A bar-tailed godwit (Limosa ...

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

"She basically just ran into my arms and just snuggled up in here and just did the biggest cuddles of all time," Neas said. "It was just such a relief." Air New Zealand would reimburse all costs ...

Experience beauty and birdsong on pest-free Tiritiri Matangi Island – an open wildlife sanctuary that’s home to many of New Zealand’s rarest native bird species. While you’re there ...

“We sent them all of the information on our work,” said ... the next administration to continue investing in developing new bird flu vaccines and to ensure that manufacturers have surge ...

The show's premise is simple: Each season, conservation rangers select an albatross couple as that year's stars. A camera on the remote headland follows the chosen birds as they lay and incubate an ...

State officials were working over the weekend to disinfect, clean and remove diseased birds. All commercial poultry operations within a 6.2-mile (10 km) radius of the affected property have been ...

in new funding to develop mRNA vaccines against emerging bio threats and said it was accelerating bird flu testing, as fears of another pandemic loom. In all, 67 people in the United States have ...