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 ...

Wisconsin Fat Bird Week returns May 8-15, with eight particularly rotund native birds competing in a March Madness-style ...

Velociraptors might have looked like “big fluffy birds from hell”, that couldn’t fly, according to research based on a new fossil. Palaeontologists in China have found a close relative of the ...

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

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 ...