MADISON — The hefty horned lark has been crowned the winner of Fat Bird Week. Just as Katmai National Park and Preserve has "Fat Bear Week," Wisconsin just concluded its first-ever "Fat Bird ...

Scientists studying the remarkably well-preserved remains of an Ice Age bird have identified the specimen as a horned lark. Buried and frozen in permafrost near the village of Belaya Gora in north ...

The frozen carcass of a horned lark discovered in northeast Siberia by fossil ivory hunters could help scientists better understand how the ecosystem evolved at the end of the last ice age ...

The "exceptionally well-preserved" horned lark was found in 2018 and was sent to researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics at Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Then he spots it: a baby streaked horned lark. Wolf’s hands tremble as he puts a tiny silver identification band on its leg. “I have an endangered species little life in my hand,” he says ...

This remarkably well-preserved horned lark died toward the end of the last ice age Dussex et al., Communications Biology, 2020 Around the tail end of the last ice age, a female horned lark flitted ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Audubon Society of Portland filed a formal notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to better protect the ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today over the lack of protections for the streaked-horned lark, a songbird with distinctive feathered horns ...

There are several species of animals including the Taylor's checkerspot butterfly, Mazama pocket gopher and the streaked horned lark that could soon be put on the endangered species list.