For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

According to Science News, a team of paleontologists has just discovered a 67 million-year-old skull of a chicken-duck hybrid believed to be the oldest modern bird fossil yet known. It is also the ...

This ‘wonderchicken’ walked the Earth with dinosaurs. An early ancestor to ducks and chickens waddled along the shores of modern-day Europe just before the asteroid impact that caused a global ...

The Ducks likely don't want to part with Zegras, but in the right deal, any player can be moved. NHL writer Adam Gretz of Bleacher Report linked the Ducks with New York Rangers star wing Alexis ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence might support it. Echidna ancestors lived watery lifestyles like platypuses ...

Loon-like ancient bird might be modern duck's ancestor By Wu Chong (China Daily) Updated: 2006-06-16 05:55. If it dives like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck and flies like a duck, is it a duck?

Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people enslaved by Harvard faculty, staff, and leadership — taking over the project ...

Man caring for ancestors’ grave may have ignited huge South Korea wildfire, police say By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon , CNN 3 minute read ...

Man caring for ancestors’ grave may have ignited huge South Korea wildfire, police say By Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon , CNN 3 minute read ...

A recent study found a nearly complete skull in Antarctica that may belong to an ancient ancestor of ducks and geese called Vegavis iaai.. This species lived around 68 million years ago.