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One of the world's most famous fossil creatures, widely considered the earliest known bird, is getting a rude present on the 150th birthday of its discovery: A new analysis suggests it isn't a bird at all....

There was nothing mysterious about the death of a flock of birds in Romania last week -- they were simply drunk, veterinarians said.

First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world.

Scientists have observed the highest rate of beak abnormalities ever recorded in wild bird populations in Alaska and the Northwest, a study by ...

Birds may use their feathers for touch - to feel their surroundings just as cats use their whiskers, scientists find.

Trading two children for a bird landed three people in jail in Louisiana, authorities say.