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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 31, 2021Microbiology
Single celled organisms called archaea occupy their own branch on the tree of life, like bacteria, but we know a lot les ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 18, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
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Artificial lighting can affect the eyesight of moths that rely on night-time vision, such as the elephant hawkmoth. The ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 11, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
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This image by Karen Bean of the Field Museum shows 4 birds that died crashing into McCormick Place windows; they're now ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 06, 2021Microbiology
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Parasites abound throughout the natural world. While not all of them cause the host's death, this newly discovered p ...Written By: Tiffany Dazet
OCT 31, 2021
Microbiology
Single celled organisms called archaea occupy their own branch on the tree of life, like bacteria, but we know a lot les
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 18, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
The climate is hot and muggy with the world's oceans as hot as a sauna. Also, it just started raining and it will not st
...
Written By:
Timothy James
OCT 14, 2021
Plants & Animals
Do you know those pesky bugs that happen swarm in front of your door right as you open it? Those swarms and the insects
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
OCT 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
It's not unusual for people in workplaces and at home to have different temperature preferences. There may be biological
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 04, 2021
Plants & Animals
According to a recent announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, also called the &
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
OCT 03, 2021
Earth & The Environment
This weekend, an oil slick was spotted off the coast of southern California, about three miles from Newport Beach, south
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
SEP 19, 2021
Plants & Animals
Though people need an ultraviolet light to see it, bioluminescence can be found in a variety of creatures, like squid or
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 17, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Most of the world’s population lives in cities. Population growth is expected to continue to be focused in urban a
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
SEP 09, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
A new study released last Tuesday highlights a surprising response to climate change: physical changes in animal mo
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
SEP 09, 2021
Plants & Animals
According to new research published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, hummingbirds use an ill-understood sense of
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
AUG 15, 2021
Neuroscience
If given a choice between a free meal and working for their food, domestic cats prefer the effort-free option. The study
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 05, 2021
Cannabis Sciences
An endocannabinoid similar to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that naturally occurs in the brain reduces seizure activity. Ho
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 03, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Outdoor recreation has long been shown to be good for your health. Walking through parks lowers blood pressure ...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
JUL 30, 2021
Earth & The Environment
The megadrought affecting the western United States is not letting up, even though the monsoon season has begun. The lat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 13, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Artificial lighting can affect the eyesight of moths that rely on night-time vision, such as the elephant hawkmoth. The
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 11, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
It's been thought that songbirds are unable to taste sugar. Songbirds lack a protein that's crucial for many animals inc
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 08, 2021
Plants & Animals
This image by researcher Viktor Radermacher shows the Heterodontosaurus tucki & a digital reconstruction of the fossil w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 14, 2021
Plants & Animals
This image by Karen Bean of the Field Museum shows 4 birds that died crashing into McCormick Place windows; they're now
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 06, 2021
Microbiology
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning chicken consumers and people that keep live poultry at h
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 25, 2021
Microbiology
Though suspected outbreaks have been documented since 1878, the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu, a highly pathogeni
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 24, 2021
Cardiology
Scientists that study human disease have long had to rely on animal models or cell culture platforms in which cells grew
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
How do sharks make transatlantic journeys without losing their way? New research published this week in Current Biology
...
Written By:
Anne Medina
APR 28, 2021
Plants & Animals
Madagascar is home to many unusual animals. A skull from one - the 'horned' crocodile - can be seen in this image by M.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 07, 2021
Plants & Animals
Parasites abound throughout the natural world. While not all of them cause the host's death, this newly discovered p
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet