Why can eagles soar through the skies while emus are bound to the earth? One secret lies in a skeletal structure called the ...

An ortolan is a small, endangered European songbird that, like the dodo, eaten by man. Where one can understand that ...

Today’s Orlando Fringe Festival reviews are of shows seen at previous festivals by the Sentinel reviewing team. They are: ...

As kākāpō numbers grow, what are the challenges to them becoming truly wild birds?

Learn how an Italian priest uncovered the world’s largest and most dramatic display of handprints and rock art ...

Some animals are so strange, brightly colored, outsized or ancient-looking that they seem hardly connected to the modern ...

Extreme weather poses a big threat to birds. Yet there is a lack of both knowledge and methods for measuring its negative ...

Bird fossils from the Cretaceous (meaning before the asteroid) are limited because it’s hard to fossilise birds. They’re ...

Flock shape, speed and structure are key in deciphering whether radar readouts are birds, bats, insects or weather ...

It’s hardly news that birds are good at flying! But when it comes to avian skills, not all birds are equal. While some birds ...

Touch is one of the most important ways people communicate nonverbally. If you know someone who’s a “touchy-feely person,” you’ve probably had the experience of pulling away once in a while when you ...

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy ...