These giant birds had a wingspan much longer than any birds of today. Read on to discover everything you could ever want to ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica has provided evidence of the oldest known modern bird—a species closely related to today’s waterfowl, about the size of a mallard duck, according to a ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

The Adélie is the littlest, and also the most widespread, species of penguin in the Antarctic. They might look a bit clumsy on land, but penguins are brilliant swimmers. They can dive down to 180m – ...

In a media release on November 20, the British Antarctic Survey, BAS, acknowledged the first avian influenza case on Bird Island in October 2023, (on the brown scuba population) adding that the ...

Penguin chicks, whose coats are made of fluffy down feathers, aren't as protected from the rain as adult penguins. Getting too wet can kill them.