There are an estimated 50 billion birds flying, walking and even swimming on planet Earth according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That number is divided ...

Anyone who has watched a rooster stalking around a farmyard might agree that there is something very dinosaur-like about ...

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

The pallium is the brain region where the neocortex forms in mammals, the part responsible for cognitive and complex functions that most distinguishes humans from other species. The pallium has ...

Mammals and birds have dramatically more neurons in their forebrain and cerebellum than reptiles, and neuron numbers have scaled up significantly only four times in more than 300 million years of ...

Alyson M. Stobo-Wilson, Brett P. Murphy, Sarah M. Legge, Hernan Caceres-Escobar, David G. Chapple, Heather M. Crawford, Stuart J. Dawson, Chris R. Dickman, Tim S ...

A colorful bird that shot to fame in "The Lion King" is being wiped out by climate change, according to new research. Global warming is reducing breeding success of the southern yellow-billed hornbill ...

Allan, J. R. 2002. The costs of bird strikes and bird strike prevention. Pages 147–153 in L. Clark, editor. Human conflicts with wildlife: economic considerations. Proceedings of the National Wildlife ...