When an Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport on Sunday — moments after it took off and struck a bird with one of its engines — the story made ...

The flaps mimick a class of feathers that are key to birds' most daring aerial ... No Incentive for Older Birds to Make New Friends Oct. 28, 2024 — Like people, birds have fewer friends as they ...

And when a bird silently nods off on its perch, it may also dream as its singing muscles twitch. Could it be rehearsing in its sleep? A substantial proportion of bird species are songbirds with ...

Bird flu is spreading more quickly in the EU this season, prompting fears of an outbreak reminiscent of past crises. Although ...

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

With his latest book-length essay, "A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys and Other Wild Places" (Timber Press), Brown rises to a level of acute observation ...

Five pigs on a noncommercial farm in Oregon were tested for the virus after other animals fell ill. As NBC News points out, "pigs can become infected with both bird and human viruses at the same time, ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) — H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday. The ...

Boeing Co. took a step toward raising as much as $25 billion, funds that would give the troubled planemaker the financial resources to withstand a paralyzing strike and work its way through a ...

The nonprofit Iran Human Rights said antisemitism had factored into Arvin Ghahremani’s case. Iran has executed a 20-year-old Jewish man who killed a man in a 2022 fight after the victim’s ...