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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 27, 2016
Plants & Animals
Killer whales have a good reputation with humans as being large and friendly sea mammals, and they’ve been known t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 22, 2016
Plants & Animals
A fossilized relic encased inside of a hunk of amber appears to be a well-preserved specimen of a dinosaur tail with fea
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 18, 2016
Plants & Animals
At the end of November, a pit mine in Montana experienced something it never had before; several thousand snow geese rep
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 15, 2016
Neuroscience
People who have pets in their lives very often treat them almost as fully human members of the family. Many studies have
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 07, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Magnetoreception enables animals to sense magnetic fields, which helps them navigate and orient themselves through the p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
By taking video of molecules inside of living tissue, scientists believe they have finally determined how melanosome tra
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 04, 2016
Plants & Animals
Most of the time, when a very old fossil is found, it’s not easy to get color samples from the fossil because of i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 26, 2016
Earth & The Environment
According the Yale Environment 360, starting in mid-October, hundreds of tufted puffins began washing up dead and emacia
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 24, 2016
Microbiology
New work in Applied and Environmental Microbiology investigated the amount of bacterial growth on whole lettuce leaves a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2016
Microbiology
In bacteria, scientists have worked to understand how form and function are related. There has been evidence that there
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 21, 2016
Plants & Animals
All kinds of animals are exposed to dangerous plastics during any point in their lives. Litter and debris that can be le
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 20, 2016
Plants & Animals
When you think of the dinosaurs, you think of a time long ago when large creatures walked the Earth before humans did. B
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 18, 2016
Videos
Symbiotic relationships are interactions between species that can benefit either both or one of the species. There are t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 18, 2016
Videos
For some animals that don't have sharp teeth or claws, or other types of classic defense mechanisms, evolution has helpe
...
NOV 16, 2016
Videos
Okay, so they're not actually zombies, they're parasitic worms that snails have consumed. But these parasites are so pow
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 16, 2016
Health & Medicine
A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment earlier this month examines the impacts of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 16, 2016
Videos
Air pollution is something being addressed all over the world as we realize the effects of climate change on the environ
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 15, 2016
Plants & Animals
Birds are just one of the many kinds of animals that humans hunt, and it turns out that human hunting may actually be ma
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 12, 2016
Plants & Animals
Were dinosaurs smart? We may have the first chance to find out after having found what appears to be an old fossil of a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 10, 2016
Plants & Animals
If you were a bird o you think you could flap your wings for 10 months straight without feeling tired? A new stud
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 08, 2016
Plants & Animals
What is the world going to do about the state of its wildlife? That’s a big question we will have to answer, and f
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2016
Plants & Animals
Scientists are seeing it now more than ever before: animals of all kinds of different species are being observed using t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2016
Plants & Animals
Somewhere in the Asian country of Mongolia is the Gobi Desert, and somewhere in the Gobi Desert lies one of the largest
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 18, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Due to torrential rains from Hurricane Matthew, rivers in eastern North Carolina are flooding a region that is home to p
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan