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Feb. 3, 2021 —The world's largest bird, the ostrich, has problems reproducing when the temperature deviates by 5 degrees or more from the ideal temperature of 20 ...
Dec. 3, 2020 —Bird species that have lost the ability to fly through evolution have become extinct more often than birds that have retained their ability to fly, according to new ...
Oct. 19, 2022 —Ostrich-like dinosaurs called ornithomimosaurs grew to enormous sizes in ancient eastern North America, according to a new ...
July 8, 2021 —Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by human early ...
Aug. 11, 2021 —A new study has revealed that over the last 20,000 to 50,000 years, birds have undergone a major extinction event, inflicted chiefly by humans, which caused the disappearance of about 10 to 20 ...
July 21, 2022 —Climate change is causing a mass extinction the likes of which has not been seen in recorded history. For birds, this biodiversity loss has implications beyond just species loss. Researchers use ...
Dec. 20, 2021 —New archeological study shows ancient connection between populations 3,000 km apart, and provides first direct link between climate change and ancient human social ...
Mar. 24, 2021 —The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed in up to 600kg and had a whopping head about half a meter long - but its brain was squeezed for space. Dromornis stirtoni, the largest of the ...
Sep. 27, 2021 —As early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea may have collected cassowary eggs near maturity and then raised the birds to adulthood, according to an international team of scientists, who used ...
May 17, 2021 —The study establishes baseline observations for tropical birds in East Africa, filling in an important data gap for monitoring biodiversity and tropical ecosystem health in a warming ...