The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs at their smallest, but the largest known ...

Fossil of an extinct Phorusrhacid "terror bird" in the Tatacoa Desert reveals insights into ancient predators and ecosystems.

A 12-million-year-old fossil has revealed what may be the largest known "terror bird" ever found, according to paleontologists.

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest ...

From long and winding migration flights to intricate songs and clever tool use, many bird behaviors are known to be ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

As people in the newsroom will tell you, I am a nuance fanatic. Put simply, if something isn’t nuanced, I generally don’t believe it. The desire for simplicity leads to the temptation to simplify.

With their melodic overhead twittering and their glorious sky gliding, birds aren’t usually thought of as dangerous. Aside ...

With a combination of visual scare devices, sonic distress call emitters, ultrasonic disrupters and roost inhibitors other birds shouldn't be a problem. If farmers just took this preventative ...

Six months earlier, these birds had made an epic journey to get here, flying all the way from Alaska. Astonishingly, they didn’t stop along the way. For eight or nine days straight, they flew ...

They changed a scoring game into a team game. "We weren't about stats," Magic said. "We were about winning." For three consecutive seasons, Bird was voted MVP, the only forward to win the award ...

Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about ...