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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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JUN 27, 2018Plants & Animals
Kansas Zoo lost two of its flamingos in 2005 after negligent staff allowed them to go too long between feather trimming ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 27, 2018Earth & The Environment
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After being cared for by experienced veterinarians at Perth Zoo, a red-tailed black cockatoo has been released back into ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 22, 2018Videos
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Anyone that has ever laid eyes on an Atlantic puffin will tell you about its incredibly colorful beak, but it now seems ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 04, 2018Space & Astronomy
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A new study published in Marine Geology poses the question: is the Mississippi slipping out from under us? The study, wh ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 27, 2018
Plants & Animals
Kansas Zoo lost two of its flamingos in 2005 after negligent staff allowed them to go too long between feather trimming
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 27, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Hawaii was built by volcanoes, and the recent Kilauea eruption in Puna on the big island of Hawaii shows us in live-acti
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 22, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
Northern spotted owls and other wildlife are being exposed to high levels of rat poison in northwest California, and ill
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUN 20, 2018
Plants & Animals
Humans, along with several other modern animals, can extend their tongue beyond their lips. People often associate this
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 19, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Quantum mechanics does not just rule the realm of physics, many biological processes that involve the conversion and tra
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 18, 2018
Plants & Animals
The black-browed albatross is perhaps one of the most easily-discernable seabirds because of its iconic facial character
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 13, 2018
Neuroscience
“Birds of a feather, flock together” is a saying that tells us those with common interests will tend to asso
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 06, 2018
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Pluto-visiting New Horizons spacecraft has finally woken up after being in a low power mode-like state sinc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 28, 2018
Plants & Animals
Stick insects look just like the naturally-occurring sticks and twigs that surround them in a forest. This is an aesthet
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 21, 2018
Plants & Animals
Animal researchers have known for some time that different species of birds sometimes cooperate for mutual benefit in th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 07, 2018
Plants & Animals
Researchers have long wondered why so many bird species fly such extended distances during their migration patterns, but
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 07, 2018
Plants & Animals
Motherly birds often sit atop their own eggs to keep them at an ideal temperature for incubation, but a short-tailed alb
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 03, 2018
Videos
Here are 10 dream symbols that you should never ignore if they appear during your nighttime snooze: 1. Falling. Falling
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 29, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool was made from an immune defense system used by bacteria. Scientists have found it has
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 26, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
The endocannabinoid system is the body’s system that regulates an array of other systems in the body. It wor
...
Written By:
Melissa Moore
APR 25, 2018
Plants & Animals
Climate change can have a severe impact on Earth’s delicate ecosystems, and seabirds are just one of many animals
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 23, 2018
Plants & Animals
After being cared for by experienced veterinarians at Perth Zoo, a red-tailed black cockatoo has been released back into
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 22, 2018
Videos
Here is a list of a few gigantic ancient animals that once roamed the Earth. The first ancient animal to be listed is th
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 22, 2018
Earth & The Environment
If you haven’t watched the Google Doodle yet today, do it. I know I was inspired by Jane Goodall’s calm voic
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 22, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Perhaps you didn’t know that the United States of America is separated by a long, invisible line down it’s c
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 11, 2018
Immunology
Using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tools, researchers identified two genes responsible for suppressing the immune system and
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 09, 2018
Plants & Animals
Anyone that has ever laid eyes on an Atlantic puffin will tell you about its incredibly colorful beak, but it now seems
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 04, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Launching rockets into space is expensive, and that’s why a bevy of smaller payloads often wait to fly standby. By
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 04, 2018
Earth & The Environment
A new study published in Marine Geology poses the question: is the Mississippi slipping out from under us? The study, wh
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan