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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 11, 2017Videos
When it comes to migration, some animals go on vast treks to get from one part of the world to another. This behavior is ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 05, 2017Plants & Animals
In the 1980’s, researchers from West Africa discovered a distinctive songbird dubbed the Liberian Greenbul (Phylla ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 04, 2017Videos
The search for a perpetual motion machine has been the chupacabra of physics for centuries. Multiple designs have been m ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 03, 2017Plants & Animals
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Have you ever noticed how many elderly folks tend to need hearing aids or ask you to speak louder so they can hear you? ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 17, 2017Earth & The Environment
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The night parrot is an elusive nocturnal bird that’s native to select parts of Australia. While it has been spotte ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 06, 2017Plants & Animals
Researchers have been looking for answers as to why some of the ocean’s largest whales beach themselves on Earth&r ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 04, 2017Plants & Animals
While there’s scientific evidence highlighting how male birds in monogamous mating systems attract female mates by ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 31, 2017Plants & Animals
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced on Friday the discovery of at least 381 new species throughout the Amazon rainfo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 29, 2017Plants & Animals
Birds can take incredibly long trips when foraging or migrating, but the hidden mechanisms behind how they find their wa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 28, 2017Neuroscience
When we think of someone that "hears voices" often what comes to mind is someone who has suffered a brain inju ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAUG 27, 2017Videos
For Nazca boobies, a seabird that inhabits the Galapagos islands, there is no sympathy among siblings; these birds pract ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 17, 2017Earth & The Environment
Climate change is hitting some areas and species harder than others. Deserts in the Southwest of the United States are f ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 13, 2017Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have recently published a new study in the journal Environmental Re ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 10, 2017Plants & Animals
When you think back to about 160 million years ago, you most likely imagine a world roamed by the dinosaurs and not much ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 04, 2017Plants & Animals
Animals eat food because they’re in constant need of nutrition replenishment and energy to survive. On the other h ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 04, 2017Space & Astronomy
Lockheed Martin is developing a new technology they're calling the Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Opt ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 31, 2017Plants & Animals
Elephants are one of the hardest-hit creatures by animal poachers because of their ivory tusks, which inhabitants of oth ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 22, 2017Videos
Have you ever looked up at a bird soaring in the sky high above you and wondered how they do it? Flying has captured the ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 22, 2017Earth & The Environment
The impacts of oil and gas development processes on plant communities are not well studied. It is certain that the remov ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 11, 2017
Videos
When it comes to migration, some animals go on vast treks to get from one part of the world to another. This behavior is
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 05, 2017
Plants & Animals
In the 1980’s, researchers from West Africa discovered a distinctive songbird dubbed the Liberian Greenbul (Phylla
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 04, 2017
Videos
The search for a perpetual motion machine has been the chupacabra of physics for centuries. Multiple designs have been m
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 03, 2017
Plants & Animals
Ichthyosaurus Communis is one of the first-known species of ichthyosaur to exist on Earth, and some U.K.-based paleontol
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2017
Plants & Animals
You were raised thinking about dinosaurs as massive reptilian creatures, and Hollywood certainly reinforced those ideas
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 25, 2017
Immunology
Killing two birds with one stone may be possible for Dengue virus and Zika virus, two pathogens spread by the same mosqu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 22, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Theranostics: one stone can kill two or three birds. Credit: Ko et al. 2014/Clinical Endoscopy This September the Journa
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 20, 2017
Plants & Animals
Have you ever noticed how many elderly folks tend to need hearing aids or ask you to speak louder so they can hear you?
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
If you were to be walking along the shore of one of the islands in the Bering Sea within the last several weeks, you wou
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
The night parrot is an elusive nocturnal bird that’s native to select parts of Australia. While it has been spotte
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 06, 2017
Plants & Animals
Researchers have been looking for answers as to why some of the ocean’s largest whales beach themselves on Earth&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
While there’s scientific evidence highlighting how male birds in monogamous mating systems attract female mates by
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 31, 2017
Plants & Animals
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced on Friday the discovery of at least 381 new species throughout the Amazon rainfo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 29, 2017
Plants & Animals
Birds can take incredibly long trips when foraging or migrating, but the hidden mechanisms behind how they find their wa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 28, 2017
Neuroscience
When we think of someone that "hears voices" often what comes to mind is someone who has suffered a brain inju
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 27, 2017
Videos
For Nazca boobies, a seabird that inhabits the Galapagos islands, there is no sympathy among siblings; these birds pract
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Climate change is hitting some areas and species harder than others. Deserts in the Southwest of the United States are f
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 13, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have recently published a new study in the journal Environmental Re
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 10, 2017
Plants & Animals
When you think back to about 160 million years ago, you most likely imagine a world roamed by the dinosaurs and not much
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
Animals eat food because they’re in constant need of nutrition replenishment and energy to survive. On the other h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 04, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Lockheed Martin is developing a new technology they're calling the Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Opt
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 31, 2017
Plants & Animals
Elephants are one of the hardest-hit creatures by animal poachers because of their ivory tusks, which inhabitants of oth
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 22, 2017
Videos
Have you ever looked up at a bird soaring in the sky high above you and wondered how they do it? Flying has captured the
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 22, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The impacts of oil and gas development processes on plant communities are not well studied. It is certain that the remov
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan