Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that question.

Migratory birds can navigate using just magnetic inclination and declination. This discovery challenges assumptions about the ...

Paleontologists in Brazil unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil of a bird species named Navaornis hestiae, dating back 80 ...

Scientists have found a trigger for social learning in wild animals. An experiment on great tits has pinpointed a single factor --immigration -- that can cause birds to pay close attention to others, ...

A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk ...