All extreme-altitude birds have evolved especially efficient systems for delivering scarce oxygen to their tissues. But a new study has found that these birds often evolved different blueprints for ...

Resembling a protective amulet, the Tibetan bunting charms Tashi Zangpo and the other monks he has trained. Courtesy of Nyanpo Yutse Environmental Protection Association “Rrrrrr, Badgers!” Tashi ...

Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a new species of sandgrouse in six to nine million-year-old rocks ...

The collection of over 1000 birds sent from Western China to the Agassiz Museum by Dr. J. F. Rock last summer, is being classified at the Museum, and preliminary announcement of its extent and value ...

An outbreak of the deadly H5N1-type bird flu has been brought under control in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The outbreak, at a chicken farm in the suburbs of Lhasa, the region's capital, killed 133 ...

In a remote corner of China, an atelier is bolstering the economy of a small village—and giving Tibetan culture global reach.

China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Monday confirmed an outbreak of bird flu at a farm in a Tibet Autonomous Region village. The testing of 268 dead chickens at a farm at Zhuba Village of Qamdo ...

On the Himalayan-enveloped Tibetan Plateau and the Altiplano plateau of South America - the world's two highest tabletops - a select few bird species survive on 35 to 40 percent less oxygen than at ...