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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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APR 04, 2018Health & Medicine
There are morning people who enjoy rising with the sun and getting an early start on their day. Others are night ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 30, 2018Earth & The Environment
Sandhill Cranes are categorized as climate threatened in Audubon's climate report.Written By: Julia TraversMAR 23, 2018Technology
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These birds, known as butcherbirds, have rightfully earned their name from their unique habit of spearing their prey on ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 05, 2018Plants & Animals
Woodpeckers are somewhat famous for their habitual act of slamming their faces into trees, but does this activity cause ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 01, 2018Earth & The Environment
Do you consider yourself an eco-friendly person? You recycle, you compost, hey, you even have solar panels on your roof! ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 31, 2018Videos
With all the litter in the world, you would think that we would have figured out a smart way to start collecting it, rig ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 30, 2018Plants & Animals
If you've ever raised chickens before, then you might be familiar with the loud crowing roosters do with each passing mo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 27, 2018Immunology
For the first time, scientists have observed in real-time the ability of bacteria within a colony to collectively predic ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 25, 2018Videos
Why do flamingos eat with their heads all wrapped around, you ask? Well, it's a good question and it all has to do with ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 09, 2018Plants & Animals
Many animal conservation efforts involve preventing human interaction whenever possible, and a new study published in th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 03, 2018Plants & Animals
After people spend enough time around others, they begin to recognize familiar faces. On the other hand, scientists have ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 02, 2018Plants & Animals
Scientists fear the worst for Jamaican habitats as an invasive tree species called Pittosporum undulatum (more colloquia ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
APR 04, 2018
Health & Medicine
There are morning people who enjoy rising with the sun and getting an early start on their day. Others are night
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 30, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Sandhill Cranes are categorized as climate threatened in Audubon's climate report.
Written By:
Julia Travers
MAR 23, 2018
Technology
These wind turbines are designed to measure and deter encounters with protected birds.
Written By:
Julia Travers
MAR 21, 2018
Plants & Animals
When you fancy a nut, chances are you’ll find a nutcracker and go to town to reach the prize inside. But did you k
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 14, 2018
Plants & Animals
Animals that live in large groups are more vulnerable to intragroup conflict from competition concerning limited prey av
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 13, 2018
Plants & Animals
During the late-Jurassic period, a winged dinosaur known to the scientific community as Archaeopteryx walked the Earth.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 08, 2018
Plants & Animals
New research published in the journal The Auk: Ornithological Advances this week by a team of international researchers
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 05, 2018
Plants & Animals
Fossils are ancient relics of our early world, and they can reveal a lot about life before people. Fortunately, scientis
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 05, 2018
Plants & Animals
As an animal evolves, it can sometimes fork into two separate species. Also known as speciation, this phenomenon depends
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 27, 2018
Neuroscience
Writing in cursive might be a lost art in the next few decades. While it was a school staple in elementary grades, it fe
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 23, 2018
Microbiology
Nature produces some amazing colors, like the pigments on the feathers of a bird or the wings of a butterfly.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 12, 2018
Videos
In this intense footage, a capuchin monkey seemingly saves a mouse from a snake that has already begun to swallow its pr
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 09, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics which describes the microscopic nature of atoms and subatomic parti
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
FEB 07, 2018
Plants & Animals
Seagulls aren’t particularly picky eaters; they frequently loiter around dumps and landfills in search of tasty tr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 05, 2018
Videos
These birds, known as butcherbirds, have rightfully earned their name from their unique habit of spearing their prey on
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 05, 2018
Plants & Animals
Woodpeckers are somewhat famous for their habitual act of slamming their faces into trees, but does this activity cause
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 01, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Do you consider yourself an eco-friendly person? You recycle, you compost, hey, you even have solar panels on your roof!
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 31, 2018
Videos
With all the litter in the world, you would think that we would have figured out a smart way to start collecting it, rig
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 30, 2018
Plants & Animals
If you've ever raised chickens before, then you might be familiar with the loud crowing roosters do with each passing mo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 27, 2018
Immunology
For the first time, scientists have observed in real-time the ability of bacteria within a colony to collectively predic
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 25, 2018
Videos
Why do flamingos eat with their heads all wrapped around, you ask? Well, it's a good question and it all has to do with
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 09, 2018
Plants & Animals
Many animal conservation efforts involve preventing human interaction whenever possible, and a new study published in th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 03, 2018
Plants & Animals
After people spend enough time around others, they begin to recognize familiar faces. On the other hand, scientists have
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 02, 2018
Plants & Animals
Scientists fear the worst for Jamaican habitats as an invasive tree species called Pittosporum undulatum (more colloquia
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard