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Stunning footage captures tiny bird's fight for survival in massive Saharan sandstormFirst of its kind footage captured for National Geographic's "Incredible Animal Journeys" shows a barn swallow caught in a sandstorm as part of its migration through the Sahara Desert.
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120 million-year-old birds tracks near South Pole are the oldest ever discovered in the Southern HemisphereFossilized bird tracks discovered in Australia show these ancient creatures lived in the southern polar regions on the supercontinent of Gondwana.
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1st-known 'highly pathogenic' bird flu cases in Antarctic could threaten penguinsThe British Antarctic Survey detected cases of highly pathogenic bird flu in seabirds on Bird Island, located in the Antarctic region in the South Atlantic.
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Upcoming solar maximum could scramble migrating birds' internal compass, new study showsBy analyzing how birds migrated across the U.S. over a 23-year period, researchers have shown that solar weather events can seriously disrupt the navigation of the wandering avians.
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Moment falcon digs its talons into pelican's head to protect its nest captured in incredible photoThe winner of the Bird Photographer of the Year was Jack Zhi, who caught the moment a peregrine falcon took on a large brown pelican.
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Animal sex: How birds do itAnimals have sex in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways. Birds have sex via an internal chamber called a cloaca that is present on both male and female animals.
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Mass die-off strikes endangered emperor penguin chicks across 4 of 5 West Antarctica coloniesOut of five known emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea region of western Antarctica, four have failed to breed this year as chicks likely drowned in the melting sea ice.
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Adorable extinct penguin was one of the smallest of its kind to ever walk Earth, tiny skull fossils revealThe newfound extinct species is remarkably similar to the living "little penguin," which only weighs around 2 pounds.
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Adult albatrosses found gnawed to death by mice on 3rd remote islandMice had previously been seen attacking seabird chicks — but in April researchers found eight dead adults. And this new development is concerning conservationists.
