Ever wondered what role the neck serves? Besides holding the head in place, of course. Depending on the bird's diet and ...

Indians have been inclined toward birds for a long time. Birds are very popular as pets in India. They are adorable, interactive, intelligent, and friendly- well-suited companions. And they are very ...

Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...

Anatomy is the field of biology that studies the structure of living things. Anatomy focuses on the composition, structure and location of the parts of organisms tissues, organs and systems ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

A human case of bird flu has been confirmed in England. The UK Health Security Agency said the person in the West Midlands region caught avian influenza on a farm where “they had close and ...

At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

Ten months on from the shocking discovery that a virus usually carried by wild birds can readily infect cows, at least 68 people in North America have become ill from the pathogen and one person ...

The US must strengthen measures to control the country’s bird flu outbreak and curb the growing risk that the virus will evolve to spread more easily between humans, international health experts ...

A bird flu prevention zone enforcing strict hygiene standards around domesticated birds has been declared for the whole of England. A rising number of cases and risk avian influenza poses to wild ...