IN ANCIENT ROME “bird seers” were priests, or augurs, who delivered prophecies based on their observations of birds. The ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...

Lava fountains on the floor of the summit caldera reached heights up to 300 feet. Michelle Broder Van Dyke covers the Hawaiian Islands for Spectrum News Hawaii. Email her at ...

Hawaii lawmakers will battle it out this session with competing bills dictating the powers of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority. Hilo Sen. Lorraine Inouye has reintroduced this ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Initial signs included increased duck mortality, prompting state officials to quarantine the farm and cull nearly 119,000 birds. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) confirmed the H5N9 ...

A human case of bird flu has been confirmed in England. The UK Health Security Agency said the person in the West Midlands region caught avian influenza on a farm where “they had close and ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual in the West Midlands region "had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds", but would not say where the farm was.