Mysterious creatures with bird-like feet roamed around southern Africa more than 210 million years ago, according to new research—roughly 60 million years before the earliest known bird ancestors.

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 ...

The largest bird on Earth is the ostrich, which can stand as tall as 9 feet and weigh between 220 and 350 pounds. Although ...

The fossilized leg bone of the terror bird went unidentified for almost 20 years. Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest ...

Eagle feathers were on full display at a recent powwow in Billings, where dozens of Native Americans adorned with feathers ...

For instance, long-beaked wading birds known as great snipes have been clocked flying 23,000 feet above Earth’s surface. But scientists can’t say why the animals climb to such extreme heights.

They lived alongside two newly described species of bird called Avisaurus darwini and Magnusavis ekalakaenis. These early avians were about the size of a hawk and had strong enough feet to capture ...

Millions of years ago, apex predators in the Phorusrhacidae family lived up to their more common name—terror birds. The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur ...

The fossilized leg bone of a giant “terror bird” discovered in Colombia provides new insights into ancient South American ...

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

If you discover a squirrel nesting in your home or shed, look for its entryway into the structure. Squirrels may come in ...