Ever wondered what role the neck serves? Besides holding the head in place, of course. Depending on the bird's diet and ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

a flock of pheasants in Erath County became the first case of the bird flu in Texas. Since then, the bird flu has mutated across species — including humans — and plagued chickens and dairy ...

With the possible exception of Texans. Texas opted for its own power grid at the turn of the 20th to the 21st century. Natural gas and wind generate most of Texas’s electricity and its ...

A large ranch outside of Houston challenged a federally funded wind turbine project alleging endangered birds could be hurt while migrating. Blue Creek Real Properties sued the Department of Treasury ...

Until last week, all bird flu in dairy herds had been identified as the B3.13 variant, which was believed to have come from wild birds in late 2023 or early 2024. The USDA confirmed the virus's ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found. The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, ...

A new type of bird flu has been detected in dairy cattle in Nevada, according to the USDA. The strain is different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year. Officials say ...

"Due to their large numbers, the birds are a nuisance population and spread disease and contaminate food and water ... USDA officials believe the virus was spread among dairy cows last year when ...

Most researchers believed there was a singular contact event between a bird infected with H5N1 B3.13 and a dairy cow in the Texas Panhandle ... infected cattle as “a nuisance population ...

A version of the H5N1 virus that has killed one person and severely sickened another has been detected in milk samples collected from Nevada dairy herds.