The H5N1 avian influenza virus—commonly known as bird flu—has been causing outbreaks in dairy cows in the United States since ...

Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) represent an evolving global threat to animal and human health, with outbreaks recurring across wild bird populations, ...

Continue the journey through The Epic of Serina as the planet's avian life evolves in astonishing ways. Part II explores the ...

The question of consciousness has puzzled scientists for decades, but new research suggests the answer lies not in what consciousness is, but rather in what purpose it serves. According to Professors ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of Jurassic birds, pushing back the origin of birds to the late Middle Jurassic ...

Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously assumed.

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks on Monday in Beijing during a presentation on bird fossils found in ...

A review article published in Nature Reviews Microbiology provides a comprehensive overview of the emergence, global dissemination, genetic diversification, and cross-species transmission of H5 highly ...

(CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in time. Several such fossils exist for Archaeopteryx — the earliest known bird — and now, ...

(CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in time. Several such fossils exist for Archaeopteryx — the earliest known bird — and now, ...