The bird was from the Ice Age and still had its feathers and talons intact. The specimen was identified as a horned lark and believed to be the ancestor of two subspecies of horned larks that are ...

This sparrow (mono­­typic genus) feeds on bare or sandy ground. When flushed, it flies to a high perch. Few other sparrows are likely to fly high overhead during daylight. They call both when ...

Many dead animals remain well-preserved under layers of ice for countless years and one such example is this tiny bird from 46,000 years ago. Two Russian men hunting for fossils of mammoth tusks ...