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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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SEP 11, 2022
Technology
In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers led by the Uni
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 03, 2022
Plants & Animals
Disease transmission between animals and humans has become more common over the last few years. The recent monkeypox and
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
AUG 27, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
A new universal flu vaccine is effective against both influenza A and B viruses in mice. The corresponding study was pub
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 15, 2022
Neuroscience
Researchers found that reduced human activity due to COVID-19 lockdowns expanded bird populations' range of habitats
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 09, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
A new universal flu vaccine has been shown to protect against influenza B viruses in cell and mouse models. The correspo
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 22, 2022
Neuroscience
A study published in Brain shows that normal human brain temperature varies by region, age, sex, menstrual cycle, and ti
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
JUN 19, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
When parents mate and produce offspring, their genomes recombine, shuffling the genetic information within. But supergen
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 02, 2022
Plants & Animals
In a recent study of hummingbird behavior, The Company of Biologists, a UK-based company, recently found that certain sp
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JUN 01, 2022
Health & Medicine
Afraid of New Things? You’re Genes Could be Responsible Scientists have discovered a significant difference in how
...
Written By:
Joshua Aeh
MAY 20, 2022
Health & Medicine
Vaccines are yet again a subject of controversy, but this time it's got nothing to do with COVID. An outbreak of avi
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
MAR 24, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a way to turn a petroleum byproduct into carb
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
MAR 14, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells are full of little machines that perform critical functions, like mitochondria, which are known as the powerhouse
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Almost half of bald and golden eagles in the U.S. have lead poisoning. In the largest comprehensive study of lead poison
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
JAN 21, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Life on earth is rich with diversity, and while we know a lot about some organisms, there is still so much more to learn
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 10, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
There's lots of stuff we can't see in the air, and it seems that includes DNA. Two new studies in Current Biology have r
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 31, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Light pollution is a newly recognized source of pollution with many complexities. What is light pollution to one person
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
DEC 29, 2021
Microbiology
There are many types of influenza virus, which are classified based on the proteins expressed on their surfaces. The H5N
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 25, 2021
Earth & The Environment
The baby Oviraptor, named Yingliang, is the best-preserved fossil embryo ever discovered in paleontology.
Written By:
Timothy James
NOV 26, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The biology of organisms can be affected by environmental pressures through the genome. For example, if a genetic mutati
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 24, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Butterfly wings contain hundreds of thousands of tiny microscopic scales, some of which are structured to display color.
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
NOV 23, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Some animals can produce offspring from an unfertilized egg in an asexual reproduction process known as parthogenesis. W
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 21, 2021
Microbiology
Zoonosis is a serious health concern, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown. Viruses that infect one species can acquire ge
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 16, 2021
Plants & Animals
The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most biodiverse locations on Earth, home to more than 3 million different species. I
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
NOV 05, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
This photo by Sydney Stringham shows the domestic pigeons that were bred by the researchers for this research.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch