Robberjays are fast and fearless little scavengers. They also happen to be very adorable, and have a hankering for pancakes. Who doesn't!?

Unfortunately for your wild childhood imagination, paleontologists recently decided that all dinosaurs probably had feathers to help insulate them during the holidays much the same way we hairless mammals use hideous sweaters to keep our nipsies from falling off like scabs in cold weather. A new chain of fossil…

Well what in the flying fuck is this?! From artist Brittany Zagoria, it's a series of birds hanging out/with penises. I don't know what's happening but these paintings make me both laugh and gross me out. So, uh, best thing ever?

Birds, as you may or may not already be aware, love to party, and by "party" I of course mean eat fermented rowan berries until they die from alcohol poisoning. According to a Saturday report in the British Medical Journal's Veterinary Record, drunk birds react pretty much exactly as drunk people, if people had wings…

Yet more research about how men and women see the world in different shades of gender conditioning suggest that men are better at identifying cars and women are better at identifying creatures in the natural world, like birds, because every man is an oil-splattered monkey wrench and every woman is a fairy princess…

Black Swan is soooo two years ago, and yet: The new cover of W features Hunger Games badass Jennifer Lawrence impersonating a fine feathered friend. She does not look happy as a lark, or proud as a peacock, however: She looks like a sitting duck, dead in the eyes.

Sleep, in case you don't get a lot of it and instead rely on the sadist you innocently call "caffeine," is really important and losing only a few hours of it each night can adversely affect most animals' ability to perform waking functions, like remembering to refill a subway card before swiping it so you don't hold…

Here's a video of some adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks recently hatched at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire, UK. The chicks are a part of a conservation breeding mission designed to keep the Spoon-billed Sandpiper from immediate extinction. This particular group of…

I'm just going to cut to the chase here: on Friday, Newt Gingrich's hand required bandaging after it was injured by an angry penguin. And just for fun, let's see that sentence again: On Friday, Newt Gingrich's hand required bandaging after it was injured by an angry penguin. Rumor has it, that penguin is now on Mitt…

You know what's better than a penguin on a plane? Two penguins on a plane! Even better than that: five penguins on three different planes (two of whom may possibly be the same penguin). Watch and learn.

Animals have been working together behind our backs for years trying to undermine humanity's supremacy. First they're stealing noodles off of the counter and the next thing you know, storks are dropping rabid wolverines into densely populated areas and capuchins are riding mountain lions in formation into rush-hours…

We apparently can learn something from the birds and the bees when it comes to human sexuality: new research shows that, just like humans, stressed-out birds are more likely to cheat on their partners. Scientists used to think that the majority of birds were monogamous, but we now know that most "cheat" on their…

Members of the scientific community have marveled for years at the Australian bowerbird's elaborate courtship ritual, in which the male bowerbird builds an elaborate edifice of a twig canopy arching over an avenue (called a "gesso") of stones, bones, and shells in order to impress on a female bowerbird that he is…

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Kelly writes: "Thought I'd send you a pic of my parrot, Ulrich, with some pumpkins for a Halloween-themed TGIF. I looked back through all the old ones and see that our feathered friends are sorely underrepresented on TGIF. You featured ducklings in April 2010 and again in July 2009...but no parrots. How bout a little…

When Muammar Gaddafi fled Libya, he left behind about 1,000 ostriches, along with herds of cattle, camels, sheep, and goats. He made no provisions to care for the animals, so they were dying — but now volunteers are feeding them and giving them medical care. Says volunteer Mohamad Al Majdoub, "They are part of Libya's…

"He's never gonna get there!" "He doesn't know that, though!"