BEIJING Experts still do not know how a new strain of bird flu is infecting humans who have had no recent contact with fowl. The uncertainty adds to challenges the Chinese government is facing in ...

WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would have offered a ...

HYDERABAD: Three months on since Sankranthi or ‘the festival of kites’ was celebrated, birds in the city continue to suffer from the use of Chinese Manja as incidents of injuries and deaths among ...

Lei Jinyu (second from left) and three bird-watchers participate in a bird survey in Shennongjia, Hubei province, last year. CHEN LIANG/CHINA DAILY Bird-watching has emerged as a rapidly growing hobby ...

Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all modern birds but not Deinonychus or Troodon, has ...