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Bird: also known as Aves or avian dinosaurs, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the world's most numerically-successful class of tetrapods, with approximately ten thousand living species, more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds. Birds have wings which are more or less developed depending on the species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds.
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OCT 10, 2018Earth & The Environment
New research published in the journal Current Biology suggests that despite efforts to clean up our oceans, marine debri ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 08, 2018Plants & Animals
A whole host of animals exhibit magnetoreception, which is the ability to navigate from point A to point B using signals ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 08, 2018Plants & Animals
While it’s not unusual for people to become a bit drunk after having too much to drink, it’s not every day t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 03, 2018Plants & Animals
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Endemic to Africa’s mid-elevation forest space is the Willard’s Sooty Boubou, a bird species that, up until ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 08, 2018Technology
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West Nile virus can cause severe neurological symptoms and can even result in death. It’s common in horses and bir ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 03, 2018Plants & Animals
Dinosaur evolution is a hot topic in the scientific community because it can help us understand how and why modern anima ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 01, 2018Microbiology
It's been shown that a healthy microbiome consists of a diverse community of microbes.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 28, 2018Chemistry & Physics
Swarming is a collective behavior of multiple bodies, organized in a synchronized fashion. Humans have managed to imitat ...Written By: Daniel DuanAUG 27, 2018Videos
Some animals have bizarre diets that are not usually thought of. For example, some species of crocodiles eat a huge rang ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 22, 2018Plants & Animals
Parrots are some of the most popular pets for bird lovers, and while their intelligence is widely-recognized, that hasn& ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 20, 2018Plants & Animals
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According to a recent research collaboration between the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the Royal Society for th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 08, 2018Plants & Animals
Researchers have long recognized the oriental cuckoo as a brood parasite, meaning that it lays its eggs in other birds&r ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 05, 2018Videos
Many of us watch birds take off into flight right before our eyes every day, but it happens so quickly that we don&rsquo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 25, 2018Earth & The Environment
Does sharing the locations of rare and endangered species help or harm those species? That’s the question that sci ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 16, 2018Health & Medicine
Every person has a circadian rhythm that tells them when it’s time to go to sleep and when it’s time to wake ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 09, 2018Plants & Animals
Crows and ravens are both black birds, but that’s about where the similarities end. The two birds are notorious fo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 03, 2018Clinical & Molecular DX
A personalized reading of your circadian rhythm could help scientists prescribe the exact time of day that drug treatmen ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 28, 2018Earth & The Environment
The marijuana industry is pushing several endemic species into threat, and at the top of the list is the cute but savage ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 10, 2018
Earth & The Environment
New research published in the journal Current Biology suggests that despite efforts to clean up our oceans, marine debri
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 08, 2018
Plants & Animals
A whole host of animals exhibit magnetoreception, which is the ability to navigate from point A to point B using signals
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 08, 2018
Plants & Animals
While it’s not unusual for people to become a bit drunk after having too much to drink, it’s not every day t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 03, 2018
Plants & Animals
Curious researchers from the University of Lodz wanted to know if there were any substantial differences between eggs la
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 01, 2018
Videos
Bigger is better, right? If you’re trying to insult someone you might call them a “pea brain” or tell
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 19, 2018
Plants & Animals
Endemic to Africa’s mid-elevation forest space is the Willard’s Sooty Boubou, a bird species that, up until
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 08, 2018
Technology
A fairly young and dynamic discipline, the study of machine ethics is geared towards humans. However, now the field is b
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
SEP 05, 2018
Plants & Animals
Setting out bird feeders stocked with fresh seeds is a common practice among bird lovers and nature appreciators. But wo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 04, 2018
Videos
West Nile virus can cause severe neurological symptoms and can even result in death. It’s common in horses and bir
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 03, 2018
Plants & Animals
Dinosaur evolution is a hot topic in the scientific community because it can help us understand how and why modern anima
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 01, 2018
Microbiology
It's been shown that a healthy microbiome consists of a diverse community of microbes.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 28, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Swarming is a collective behavior of multiple bodies, organized in a synchronized fashion. Humans have managed to imitat
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
AUG 27, 2018
Videos
Some animals have bizarre diets that are not usually thought of. For example, some species of crocodiles eat a huge rang
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 22, 2018
Plants & Animals
Parrots are some of the most popular pets for bird lovers, and while their intelligence is widely-recognized, that hasn&
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 20, 2018
Plants & Animals
Researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been left stumped after perusing through several years’ w
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 15, 2018
Neuroscience
There is much concern over the dwindling population of honey bees. They are needed for pollination and for ecosystems to
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 14, 2018
Plants & Animals
According to a recent research collaboration between the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the Royal Society for th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 08, 2018
Plants & Animals
Researchers have long recognized the oriental cuckoo as a brood parasite, meaning that it lays its eggs in other birds&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 05, 2018
Videos
Many of us watch birds take off into flight right before our eyes every day, but it happens so quickly that we don&rsquo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 25, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Does sharing the locations of rare and endangered species help or harm those species? That’s the question that sci
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 16, 2018
Health & Medicine
Every person has a circadian rhythm that tells them when it’s time to go to sleep and when it’s time to wake
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 09, 2018
Plants & Animals
Crows and ravens are both black birds, but that’s about where the similarities end. The two birds are notorious fo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 03, 2018
Clinical & Molecular DX
A personalized reading of your circadian rhythm could help scientists prescribe the exact time of day that drug treatmen
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 28, 2018
Earth & The Environment
The marijuana industry is pushing several endemic species into threat, and at the top of the list is the cute but savage
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan