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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

“Even if you don’t know a lot about ravens or other corvids, their intelligence—and difference from most other bird species—becomes obvious when you observe them in the wild,” says ...

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 ...

Research has found that a raven might make as many as 40 trips back and forth and that there might be more than 40 birds participating. That is a lot of meat being taken away.

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

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 ...