We watched as two large birds circled high overhead. Their wings were wide, and with their finger-like tips, we thought they were merely turkey vultures soaring on the upward-rising thermals. But ...

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It's not just you — even ravens can feel bad when their friends feel bad. That's what a study, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found. In an effort to understand ...

The brilliance and adaptability of ravens have helped them triumph in an era that has been disastrous for most wildlife. Human infrastructure, like these transmission lines in southeastern Idaho, ...

New research has shown that ravens are just as smart as chimpanzees, indicating that brain size has little to do with intelligence. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

The members of the crow family, which includes crows, jays, magpies and ravens, are a group of highly social and highly intelligent birds. Many researchers believe this to be the most intelligent ...

You really can’t call a raven a birdbrain, because they and other corvids (the avian family they belong to) are actually pretty smart. New research published in Scientific Reports suggests that, at ...

In Colorado’s mountains, really big black birds are either American crows or common ravens, both of which can be found year-round throughout the state and both of which are often mistaken for the ...

For millennia, the sagebrush steppe that sprawls from Wyoming to California was a treeless scrubland, unbroken by anything taller than the occasional piñon or juniper. Common ravens, which prefer to ...