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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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DEC 31, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Here’s something you may not have known that the new tax bill is hiding: drilling in the artic. Now, no matter you
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 28, 2017
Health & Medicine
When scientists study how viruses mutate and spread, it involves working with very dangerous strains of bacteria. Three
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 28, 2017
Plants & Animals
As beautiful as the snowy owl is, animal experts still very little about it. On the other hand, their extensive headcoun
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 25, 2017
Videos
Murmurations are densely-packed flocks of tiny songbirds called starlings. Thousands of the birds can exist in a single
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 19, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Several years ago, the NIH imposed a moratorium on funding for some types of research that involved altering three deadl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 18, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Ho ho ho, and happy holidays to all! All, that is, except for the environment, which takes a major toll in carbon footpr
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 13, 2017
Technology
Bats can move in large groups without hitting each other, and that's something self-driving cars need to be able to do a
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
DEC 07, 2017
Plants & Animals
Paleontologists discover new fossils with each passing day that help tell a story about the world before humans. A more
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 30, 2017
Technology
The new design entails the use of an array of smaller, drifting U-shaped screens that will be equipped with sea anchors
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
NOV 30, 2017
Plants & Animals
Although uncommon, there are a handful of incidents where animal researchers get a chance to study interspecific relatio
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 29, 2017
Plants & Animals
Modern discoveries indicate that many dinosaurs might have been feathered like birds rather than scaly as popular Hollyw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 28, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The UK is anticipating a step forward for the environment. Chancellor Philip Hammond announced last week in his budget s
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 28, 2017
Plants & Animals
A European predatory bird known as the red kite (Milvus milvus) weathered difficult times in the 80’s. After a clo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 27, 2017
Videos
Although it's not a pretty sight, birds fly into airplane engines from time to time. These events are known as "Bird Str
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2017
Microbiology
Salmonella enterica is the leading cause of bacterial illness in the United States as well as other parts of the world.
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 21, 2017
Plants & Animals
Albatrosses all around the world are in trouble. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recognize
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 20, 2017
Microbiology
Washing Your Thanksgiving Turkey Does More Harm than Good The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports tha
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 14, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
People who doubt evolution need only look around to see examples of it in action.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 08, 2017
Technology
The Navajo Nation has long been a major energy provider for the Southwest but has not had widespread access to electrici
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
OCT 31, 2017
Videos
A plethora of animals that can be trained to do extraordinary things and falcons are no different. Falconer Bill Ponder
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2017
Microbiology
From March 2013 to July 2017, there have been 1557 human cases and 605 deaths associated with avian influenza A virus in
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
OCT 25, 2017
Plants & Animals
As if some critically-endangered animals’ lives weren’t difficult enough, natural disasters like hurricanes
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
As gross as many people think they are, insects are vital to the fragile ecosystem around us. Unfortunately, pollinators
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 14, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences utilized collections of old birds from natural histor
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan