Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have discovered the 52-million-year-old remains of the earliest known ancestors of birds like the robin and ...

The 'perching birds,' or passerines, are the most common birds in the world today -- they include sparrows, robins, and finches. They used to be very rare. Scientists have just discovered some of the ...

A 52-million-year fossil of a "perching bird" has been found in Wyoming with its feathers still attached, a discovery that "no one's ever seen before." Also known as passerines, the perching bird was ...

We all enjoy seeing birds in our gardens. But how much do you know about a bird anatomy? If you asked the average person to describe a bird, the answer probably would be a quick overview of its ...

Look at a bird’s beak to see what family the bird belongs to and the kind of food it eats. Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers ...

Most of the birds you've ever seen--sparrows, finches, robins, crows--have one crucial thing in common: they're all what scientists refer to as perching birds, or "passerines." The passerines make up ...