For birds, a diving lifestyle seems irreversible, evolutionarily speaking. The inflexibility possibly increases diving birds’ chances of going extinct.

It was a tense 3 1/2-hour car ride for Cyndi Routledge, who was chasing down a creature never seen before in Tennessee. Routledge, secretary of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, had gone on ...

The diving bird was thousands of miles off course from its typical range. A rare diving bird called an ancient murrelet was spotted at a TN lake, which is a first for the Southeast, according to ...

A rare diving bird called an ancient murrelet was spotted at a TN lake, which is a first for the Southeast, according to experts.

There were various diving birds during the Cretaceous, including North America's Hesperornis, which reached about 6 feet (1.8 meters) long, but none are known from the area Natovenator inhabited.

Birds that dive to hunt could have adapted into an evolutionary "dead end", according to new research. Scientists at the University of Bath found highly specialised species such as penguins and ...

Rare bird spotted diving in Tennessee lake, experts say. It’s a first for Southeast By Makiya Seminera. November 28, 2023 2:04 PM.

A rare diving bird called an ancient murrelet was spotted at a TN lake, which is a first for the Southeast, according to experts.

A new dinosaur species has been discovered, and it’s causing a stir in the scientific community. Named Natovenator polydontus, this creature had a streamlined body, much like modern diving birds.

A rare diving bird called an ancient murrelet was spotted at a TN lake, which is a first for the Southeast, according to experts.