Clever cockatoos breaking into garbage cans for a bite to eat have been continually outsmarting the humans trying to stop them, sparking a new bird versus human war. Humans have an unexpectedly long ...

Amblin Partners, which was behind Steven Spielberg’s 'Saving Private Ryan,' has picked up the film rights to 'A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game That Won the War,' an upcoming non-fiction ...

The Emu War remains one of the strangest chapters in military history. Facing crop devastation, the Australian government turned its guns on flocks of emus — and lost. This remarkable true story ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

The Mid Atlantic Air Museum’s 32nd annual World War II Weekend, with the theme “A Gathering of War Birds,” will take place Friday through Sunday at Reading Regional Airport. Gates open at 8:30 a.m.

ILLINOIS, USA — A little-known, government-sponsored war was fought across Illinois during the 1930s and '40s, the enemy of which can still be heard on chilly winds to this day Bombing squads were ...

Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world. Read previous columns here. Cher Ami, a carrier pigeon credited with rescuing a U.S. battalion from friendly fire in World ...