An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

A red-throated loon swims along the water's surface. Note the coloration and the bill, which is fairly thin when compared to ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

FREEPORT, Maine — The American Birding Association has named its 2025 bird of the year, and it's a bird Mainers are quite familiar with. This year's winner is the common loon. "Loons are big, they're ...

A few fun facts and features about one of Canada's most iconic birds. The post Why the Common Loon is Anything But Common ...

A trip to a local pond brings a whole new respect knowing the beaked inhabitants evolved when T-Rexes were still around.

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

A sophisticated blood system ensures that bare bird legs remain cool, almost at zero degrees Celsius, explaining how ducks survive around icy water. In order to maintain warmth, resident birds ...

Welcome to Birds With Legs Studio. We're just two silly little folks with two silly little legs (each) and we're gonna do some game-making.

INTERVIEW: Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly ...