Concerns about a potential bird flu outbreak have emerged in Mid-Michigan after a local hunter discovered a significant number of dead geese. Kolton Beckman, a waterfowl hunter, was scouting for geese ...

In recent scientific breakthroughs, fossils of a waterfowl dating back to the dinosaur era were discovered in Antarctica, revealing this bird as the oldest 'modern' bird ancestor. Research also has ...

According to officials from Maryland's Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Maryland's 2025 midwinter waterfowl survey ...

State officials say the highly pathogenic avian influenza – more commonly known as bird flu – is widespread in much of the ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

County briefings go live every Wednesday at 11 a.m. The Feb. 5 briefing covered debris removal updates, relief programs and ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

While it's tragic and alarming to see a massive die-off, it's not uncommon for birds that travel in such large populations.

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs.