Its name means "Nava's bird," named for William Nava, the scientist who discovered the fossil in 2016 in Sao Paulo state in ...

The fossil bird, which has been named Navaornis hestiae, lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

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Brazil is home to a rich variety of bird species, including large birds such as vultures, which often rest on transmission towers, creating potential risks for power operations. In Yangzhou, known as ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

Nearly 20 years ago, while repairing a fence on his ranch in Colombia, fossil collector César Perdomo found the middle leg ...

Brazilians are being threatened by an eight-legged predator that is spreading like wildfire in the country. Scorpions, the ...

eating more and reproducing more,” explained Thiago Chiariello, production coordinator of the scorpion antivenom lab at ...

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

Evolutionary biologist Federico Degrange from Argentina's Center for Research in Earth Sciences and colleagues found the bird ...