Much later, somewhere around 440,000 to 140,000 years ago, common ravens first contacted this separate raven species again. “This is definitely an ancient speciation reversal event,” Kearns said.

Three million years ago, there was one species of raven in western North America, a direct ancestor of today’s ravens. This species would gradually cleave into two, the Holarctic raven and an ...

A family of ravens have set up home on a Lincolnshire TV and radio transmitter. The birds have built a nest about a third of ...

Ravens Surprise Scientists By Showing They Can Plan : The Two-Way As recently as 10 years ago, humans were thought to be the only species with the ability to plan. Turns out ravens can, too, on a ...

With raven populations growing at a rate of 2.5% a year, they have their work cut out for them. In a prepared statement, Audubon California declined to comment on the drone.

The best-known species in North America are the common raven (Corvus corax) and American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos). Corvids can be found all over the world except South America and Antarctica.

Mysterious And Known As The 'Raven': Scientists Identify New Whale Species : The Two-Way "There have been a lot of people out there surveying whales for a long time and never come across this," a ...

Crows and ravens (household names that encompass several species of birds in the genus Corvus) have proven their smarts time and again. Crows understand the concept of zero and can use multi-step ...

Coastguards have scaled the cliffs of the Calf of Man to rescue a baby raven which was trapped in hay twine for several days.

Evolutionary biologist Joan Garcia-Porta’s team found that crows and ravens, both in the corvid family, expanded their range and evolved into various species quickly.

In Oregon, their fragmented habitat is threatened by human development, invasive species, wildfires and overgrazing. Researchers are just starting to look into raven depredation, a more ...

Now, as each species develops new strategies to try to outsmart the other, researchers are racing to find ways to stop the raven attacks before they begin to affect the penguin population.