Whether they’re fat pigeons waddling on the subway platforms or a raven crying “nevermore” on your mantel, America is filled with birds: over 730 distinct species, all flapping, squawking, and ...

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The more evidence we gather about the evolution of birds, the more likely it seems that they evolved from dinosaurs. But when, exactly, did birds split from their awe-inspiring cousins? A new ...

What do a pigeon and a flamingo have in common? Quite a bit, according to a reordering of the evolutionary tree of birds. One of a series of studies published Thursday in Science is the latest step ...