Wisconsin Fat Bird Week returns May 8-15, with eight particularly rotund native birds competing in a March Madness-style bracket where people vote daily for their favorite chubby ...

This summer’s blockbuster “Jurassic World” ruffled the feathers of many a paleontologist when the movie’s depiction of several dinosaurs, namely the ferocious Velociraptor, lacked, well, feathers. Now ...

Ever wondered what a small, fluffy dragon with catlike ears looks like? Meet the great eared nightjar, a rather mystical-looking bird. This big-eyed creature, whose name is Lyncornis macrotis and is ...

Bird-brained they may be, but thousands of fluffy baby chicks were thinking straight when they made a desperate bid for freedom from their transport lorry. The chirping little bundles of feathers were ...

Voters will determine if a chungus cardinal, massive meadowlark or ginormous goldfinch are the chunkiest birds.

Adorable video shows two tiny flamingo chicks being hand-reared by devoted zoo staff, as they prepare the fluffy birds to move to the wetlands. Suoer-cute video shows the fluffy flamingo chicks being ...

Feathers are a sleek, intricate evolutionary innovation that makes flight possible for birds, but in addition to their stiff, aerodynamic feathers used for flight, birds also keep a layer of soft, ...