Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this image made available by the U.S. Postal Service on Friday Dec. 30, 2016, customer Rhonda King, of Grant, Ala., left, holds ...

Following a deadly explosion in a Welsh coal mine in 1896, an engineer called John Haldane invented a type of bird cage that allowed canaries to accompany miners into the depths. The small songbirds ...

The carnage of broken wings and dead canaries that arrived in an Alabama woman’s mail have been replaced by the cheerful chirps and tweets of brand new birds — live ones. The U.S. Postal Service paid ...