A three-year bird flu outbreak in U.S. poultry has killed 166 million chickens since 2022. (Image Credits: Pixabay) As the United States continues to grapple with bird flu, health officials of the ...

Moderna Inc.'s stock tumbled 4% Thursday after a report that health officials are reviewing a contract the company won from the Biden administration to support efforts to develop a bird-flu vaccine.

Saitta is a paleontologist who often studies non-avian dinosaurs (the branches of the dinosaur family tree that do not include modern birds). However, when he arrived at the Field Museum for a ...

Despite the ongoing threat of bird flu, many homesteaders consider poultry a great place to start when raising your own livestock. There’s many things to love – poultry require less space than most ...

Fossil evidence has revealed that feathers are not exclusive to modern birds and their immediate relatives. Dinosaurs with feathers existed in the distant past, showing that these structures are much ...

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In her art, Wendy Binks of Stunned Emu Designs captures ... Most modern birds – nearly 10,000 species – are neognaths. “The problem? The more we study the same species repeatedly, the ...

A group of bipartisan senators is calling on the Trump administration to act decisively to combat the spread of bird flu throughout the country. The lawmakers reached out to newly appointed ...

The right combination of bird behaviors augured favorable conditions, but the wrong patterns spelled trouble. Today, spanning nearly 60 years, in partnership with the Point Reyes National Seashore ...

But look more closely, and you will see that Sasmita’s art embraces a violent display of femininity that is unmistakably, and fiercely, modern ... by transforming into birds, whilst others ...

A team of researchers have shed light on the emergence of modern birds from dinosaurs, providing physical evidence that modern birds and dinosaurs co-existed during the Cretaceous period.

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. Credit: Mark ...