The Madagascar heron, also known as Humblot’s heron, is a species of heron endemic to the north and west coasts of Madagascar ...

Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered.

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands follows on from the 2013 The Birds of Africa Vol. 8. The 488 species are all illustrated in colour, some for the first time, showing significant ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...

Madagascar, a jewel of biodiversity, appears like a failing state. Since breaking up with France in 1960, Madagascar’s been ...

told L’Express de Madagascar. “Bird species that cannot fly high are surely burned. Not to mention the flora that has simply disappeared with the fire.” While CVB and residents play a role ...