Explore the rocky shores of Fernandina Island, observing marine iguanas and flightless cormorant birds. Then visit Genovesa Island, known as the “Bird Island,” where you can see the red-footed ...

One of the most fascinating examples of evolution, the flightless cormorant has lost the ability to fly, investing instead in developing excellent diving skills. These birds have adapted to hunting ...

We were able to explore several of the main islands to see the giant tortoises, marine and land iguanas, blue-footed boobies, flamingoes, flightless cormorants, lava lizards, Galapagos hawks, ...

Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours hunched over looking through brush and scouring the short grass on the side of the ...

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

More information: Jeff White et al, Comparative mechanisms for O2 storage and metabolism in two Florida diving birds: the anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) and the double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...