Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...

For birds, sound is survival. Their songs establish territories, attract mates, and warn of dangers. When traffic noise ...

Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread in poultry flocks rather than culling infected birds, aiming to ...

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Five years ago the country's first national lockdown began. Now, as Ebola, Mpox and bird flu are deemed 'high risk', experts ...

A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ ...

It may not even be the one-in-10,000 risk of irreversible paralysis known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which is ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.

Drinking raw milk may pose a risk of bird flu transmission to humans. Will pasteurization eliminate this risk and make milk ...