Birds breathe in dangerous plastics -- and so do we A study finds high levels of microplastics in bird lungs, raising alarms about the pollution humans inhale daily Date: February 27, 2025 Source: ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Blue-footed boobies are well known for their name, but their unusually-colored feet serve several purposes in the wild.

Birds’ feet and beaks are also very sensitive to temperature. If you touch your bird’s beak or feet, and they’re cold, it can be a sign they’re not comfortable. Luckily, there are plenty ...

Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness, radiation ...

One especially scary character shows only the whites of his eyes. The zombies drag their feet toward passengers, sending them running through the dark station tunnels to a train. Inside the blood ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States ...

If you’ve ever wanted to handle hobbit feet or pose with a tinfoil Gollum ... of the facility’s penguin rescue program. It’s a bird, not a fruit! The national symbol of New Zealand is ...

Mar. 20, 2025 — A new study has discovered that birds in the Galapagos Islands are changing their behavior due to traffic noise, with those frequently exposed to vehicles showing heightened ...