May 15, 2024 — The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago.
We’ve known for a long time that birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, but new clues ... [+] are shedding light on a transitional phase in how feathers came to be. Feathers are ...
Researchers from Flinders University have uncovered partial fossils of a 45,000-year-old prehistoric bird in Far North SA.
A particular type of bird flu has now killed its first human. On Wednesday, Mexican health officials and the World Health Organization announced a confirmed case of H5N2 avian influenza in a 59 ...
Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which has health ...
Chickens at a Mexican farm that had been quarantined after a bird flu outbreak in 2012. (Hector Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) A 59-year-old male resident of Mexico died after being infected with a ...
Even as the United States grapples with an outbreak of H5N1 flu in dairy cattle, the World Health Organization has announced the first known human infection with a different strain, H5N2, in a ...
A 59-year-old who had no known exposure to poultry or other animals, has died of the bird flu, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The man, a resident of Mexico, died after being ...