The Metro Richmond Zoo announced on Monday that two of their cranes, recently deceased, had tested positive for the H5 bird flu. The zoo said a deceased crane had tested positive for bird flu at a ...

The red-crowned crane is one of the rarest birds in the world ... map of North and South Korea shows the Demilitarized Zone, a 2.5-mile-wide no man's land that separates the two nations.

Captive breeding programs have boosted their numbers, and successful reintroduction efforts have raised the number of wild birds to several hundred. The massive whooping crane management effort ...

A fossil from the Miocene Epoch, some ten million years ago, was found to be structurally the same as the modern sandhill crane. Today, these large birds are found predominately in North America.

Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago. They are among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most ...