A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the...
Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to...
Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a new study shows. In the first...
Analysis of global tracking data for 77 species of petrel has revealed that a quarter of all plastics potentially encountered in their search for...
Fossil bones from two newly-described penguin species, one of them thought to be the largest penguin to ever live – weighing more than 150 kilograms...
Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about...
We are delighted to announce that due to a number of generous donations from both members of the public and the scientific community, together with...
New study uses data on lead levels in the livers of thousands of dead raptors to calculate the impact of lead poisoning on population size.
The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of palaeontologists.
Researchers have shown how millions of years of climate change affected the range and habitat of modern birds, suggesting that many groups of...
New research reveals that biodiversity ‘hotspots’ in the tropics produced new species at faster rates over the last 25 million years, but those in...
Big data study of global biodiversity shows ineffective national governance is a better indicator of species decline than any other measure of “...
