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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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H5N1 was first detected in 1996 in poultry in China's Guangdong province. Since then it has led to several outbreaks tha ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 05, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
In recent years, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1, has been devastating bird populations around the w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 25, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Ecological Applications examines how certain bird species are coping on 44 privately-owned a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 01, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study by researchers at Virginia Tech looked at the giant salamanders known as “hellbenders.” Scien
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
JUN 19, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
In the 1970s, an entirely new group of organisms that were not bacterial or eukaryotic was discovered - archaea. Some ar
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 09, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Microplastics are small plastic particles less than five millimeters long. They can come from larger plastic pieces whic
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
MAY 31, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Even as the world grapples with COVID-19, there has been another massive outbreak of a viral pathogen called H5N1 influe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 27, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Defaunation is the loss or decline of animal species around the world, a phenomenon which is accelerating in recent year
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
MAY 02, 2023
Plants & Animals
How does urban honeybee-keeping impact wild bee populations? This is what a recent study published in Peerj hopes to add
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 12, 2023
Plants & Animals
Four southern sea otters observed stranded off the coast of California near Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo between Febru
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
APR 11, 2023
Microbiology
Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have found that a virus spread by ticks, P
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 19, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
We spend a lot of time indoors, and indoor air quality can have a significant impact on our health. Indoor pollutants ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 12, 2023
Earth & The Environment
February 12 has come to be known as Darwin Day. In honor of this day, here's a look at how Darwin's ideas evolved.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 30, 2023
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, a team of researchers led by the University of California, Los Angele
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 20, 2023
Chemistry & Physics
New research reveals how flamingos filter food from water using a complex set of fluid dynamics
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 20, 2023
Plants & Animals
Mummified animals of many kinds were common in Ancient Egypt, from more common animals like cats, birds, and dogs to mor
...
Written By:
Sarah Hoffman
JAN 18, 2023
Neuroscience
New research shows that neuron dentisty in the T. rex brain may be most similar to modern-day baboons.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 15, 2023
Health & Medicine
Since 2021, a particularly persistent and deadly strain of avian influenza, highly pathogenic avian influenza, has been
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an experimental mRNA vaccine that protects against all known
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
NOV 23, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Biological Conservation, an international team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz examin
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 05, 2022
Plants & Animals
Equipped with a mohawk, a long sharp beak, and a quick stride the roadrunner has the tools and cunning to adapt to a rug
...
Written By:
Timothy James
NOV 03, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers in Pennsylvania discover a new-to-science hybrid songbird species
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
OCT 20, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Ritual use of animal sacrifice is not unusual in Ancient Egypt and animals were frequently mummified throughout the Old,
...
Written By:
Sarah Hoffman
OCT 11, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Every mammal that is found on our planet is descended from one common ancestor, thought to have lived around 180 million
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 13, 2022
Microbiology
H5N1 was first detected in 1996 in poultry in China's Guangdong province. Since then it has led to several outbreaks tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch