Australian birds have a lot to teach us about living long and happy lives according to Professor Gisela Kaplan from the Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour at the University of New England.

A new study has found that about 5% of tested Australian birds have undergone a “sex reversal”—meaning the birds’ genetic sex did not match with their reproductive organs. 480 birds that had died ...

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The barking owl is one of the 53 endangered bird species featured on the album. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons In a surprising twist, an album of bird songs winged its way ahead of Grammy-winning ...

Long believed to be extinct, Australia’s night parrot has defied expectations with its rediscovery in the country’s remote interior, Australian Geographic reported. Indigenous rangers and scientists ...

SYDNEY - Scientists have documented a surprising rate of sex reversal in wild Australian birds, a phenomenon that could be explained by rising pollution or other environmental triggers. A study of ...