Have you ever heard of the smelly bird that has claws on its wings? Yes, such an animal does exist—and it’s called the hoatzin. This bird is known for its rotten scent, thanks to its hardworking ...

The Amazon's Hoatzin, or \"stinkbird,\" possesses a unique digestive system that ferments leaves, resulting in a cow ...

An international team of researchers recently discovered two 99-million-year-old bird wings perfectly preserved in amber. The wings, from two young birds trapped in tree sap, are the first specimens ...

The problem of birds attacking or crashing into windows surfaces repeatedly. I can't run the answer every week in The Patriot-News, but I can post the following compilation of my previous coverage on ...

90 Seconds of Nature: Backyard birds attack a sunflower patch A patch of sunflowers planted along a driveway out of a love of the big, showy flowers, finds a second, post-bloom purpose with the birds ...

A study of the claws of ancient flying reptiles known as pterosaurs suggests that some of the creatures may have walked like present-day herons and used claws on their wings to hold prey. In modern ...

Birds lack arms in more ways than one. Avian equivalents of antlers, horns, tusks and canine teeth are few and far between – ...

Two tiny wings entombed in amber reveal that plumage (the layering, patterning, coloring, and arrangement of feathers) seen in birds today already existed in at least some of their predecessors nearly ...

Before birds could fly on two wings, they had to ditch their training wings. This idea, first put forward a decade ago, is gaining credence with the discovery of 11 early bird fossils that seem to ...