Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilization - believed to be the oldest in the world.

Through intensive breeding, humans have pushed breeds such as pug dogs and Persian cats to evolve with very similar skulls ...

Vaishakha Amavasya holds deep spiritual significance in Hindu tradition. Observing rituals, offering prayers to ancestors, ...

New research published in the journal Ornithology shows that Lesser Goldfinches, a small songbird traditionally found in the ...

The discovery of footprints dating back as far as 50 million years ago is offering insight into behaviors of prehistoric ...

These uninhabited volcanic isles host an impressive array of Arctic birds, including one of North America’s most enigmatic species: the McKay’s Bunting, which breeds only here. Last summer a team of ...

Paleontologists are flocking to the recently discovered bird-like dinosaur fossil named Fujianvenator prodigiosus. Unearthed in 2022, this fossil revealed surprising details that turn previous ideas ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

The tradition of coloring eggs to celebrate Easter can be traced to the 13th-century Britain, and perhaps even earlier, to ...

That is an incredibly long time for a species to exhibit the same foraging patterns as its ancestors.” The scientists said ...

“If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their surviving descendants: birds,” said Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, a Royal Society Newton ...

A man in China who scratched his lottery tickets while kowtowing to ancestors at their tombs has scooped the biggest win of his life and attributed his luck to the “blessings” of his forebears ...