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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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JUL 19, 2017
Immunology
Forest Bathing: How a Quick, Leisurely Visit to the Forest Can Reduce Stress and Boost the Immune System A Japanese conc
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
Perhaps we don’t know as much about the dinosaurs as we originally thought. Even the legendary Tyrannosaurus Rex,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 16, 2017
Plants & Animals
Throughout history, humans have relocated animals from one part of the world to another. Sometimes the relations are on
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 13, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot received a lot of attention this week because the Juno probe was positioned just right fo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Juno probe arrived at Jupiter and performed orbital insertion on Independence Day in 2016 after a five-year
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 11, 2017
Health & Medicine
Fighting fire with fire, scientists are harnessing the adaptability of helpful microbes to challenge the adapt
...
Written By:
Invisiverse Puccio
JUL 10, 2017
Plants & Animals
In many freshwater lakes around the world, carp are a common sight. These bottom-feeding fish can grow anywhere between
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 06, 2017
Videos
Normally, frogs develop from tadpoles with just two hind legs. But there are unique circumstances in which they can deve
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 03, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Wildfires have been sparking up all over the Western United States, with more than 20 isolated spots burning in the last
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 02, 2017
Plants & Animals
There are several birds that chirp melodies through the skies; these are known as songbirds, and scientists have always
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 30, 2017
Plants & Animals
Mallard ducks are usually humble creatures, feeding on smaller foods like insects, berries, and plants. On the other han
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 28, 2017
Plants & Animals
It seems, another day, another animal on the brink of extinction. Only this time, the spotlight is being focused on hen
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 21, 2017
Plants & Animals
A small island dubbed São Tomé resides in the middle of the Gulf of Guinea, just West of Africa, and it ju
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The Amazon River Basin, which contains 20% of the world’s freshwater and covers more than 6.1 million square kilom
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 15, 2017
Plants & Animals
Gray seals were recently facing the very real threat of extinction given that they were being over-hunted and how enviro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 10, 2017
Plants & Animals
Although paleontologists have been finding animal fossils in the form of bones and bone-shaped rocks for eons, full-bodi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 07, 2017
Plants & Animals
Dinosaur researchers continue to go back and forth about what dinosaurs might have looked like back in the day, and it&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 05, 2017
Plants & Animals
Scientists now think that the dinosaurs had feathered bodies rather than reptilian like the Jurassic Park movies made th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 02, 2017
Plants & Animals
It’s generally atypical for birds of flight to lose their ability to soar through the air, so we have very little
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 29, 2017
Plants & Animals
Paleontologists help depict the history of the ancient world one fossil at a time, and now a new fossil is telling the s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 26, 2017
Plants & Animals
While exploring the wilderness in Morocco, you might experience things you wouldn’t expect, such as goats jumping
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 24, 2017
Videos
Did you know that in just the US about 1 million animals loose their lives as roadkill EVERY DAY? That's a lot of chicke
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 24, 2017
Plants & Animals
Usually when you see flamingos at rest, they’re not standing on both legs; only one. This strange behavior has stu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 23, 2017
Space & Astronomy
International Space Station astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer were given short notice over the weekend about hav
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard