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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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Young Guillemot chicks are eventually pushed from the safety of their rocky ledges when their parental units believe the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 22, 2020Genetics & Genomics
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MAY 07, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Many species of Campylobacter bacteria are infectious and can cause a disease called campylobacteriosis in animals and p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 29, 2020
Earth & The Environment
While it’s not surprising that plastic pollution is reaching Antarctica, it is undoubtedly alarming considering th
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
APR 28, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
In a five year study, scientists have now shown that stickleback fish were able to alter some of their traits within a s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 26, 2020
Plants & Animals
Bats have garnered oodles of attention in previous weeks as they’ve been identified as potential carriers of the i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 20, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Today marks the tenth year since the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the most massive accidental offshore oil spill eve
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
APR 19, 2020
Plants & Animals
Most of the time, wild flamingos are observed in massive flocks as opposed to hanging out on their own. It’s evide
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 12, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Can spider venom offer pain relief? Apparently, yes! According to researchers at University of Queensland, compounds iso
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 12, 2020
Plants & Animals
If you’re a rhino of any kind, then you’d probably always want to keep your distance from humans. Rhinos hav
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 05, 2020
Plants & Animals
Birds of all kinds are renowned for their calls, songs, and relentless chirps. Some birds use their calls to communicate
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 05, 2020
Plants & Animals
Animal researchers spend much of their time outdoors as they explore the world in the name of science. That said, it may
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 18, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Common drug treatments used in cattle, such as de-worming and anti-ectoparasitic products, have held effect on wildlife
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAR 16, 2020
Plants & Animals
The animal world is chock-full of critters that do seemingly odd or unusual things. The decorator crab is one such examp
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 13, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Imagine if we could forecast ecological changes just as we can forecast the weather. That’s just what new research
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 10, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
In a recently published study, a group of Czech Republic researchers from the puts together two materials that are unlik
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 07, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Data has shown conclusively that even though women tend to have poorer health than men during their adult lives, they li
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 04, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
An international team of researchers has analyzed cartilage from a baby duckbilled dinosaur, and they have identified bi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 02, 2020
Plants & Animals
If you were to take to the streets and poll random people about what a bullfrog likes to eat, chances are most would ans
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 24, 2020
Plants & Animals
Pelicans are seabirds renowned for their unique bills, which encompass a rather discernible throat pouch that makes capt
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 23, 2020
Plants & Animals
Young Guillemot chicks are eventually pushed from the safety of their rocky ledges when their parental units believe the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 22, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
In 2018 in a place called Belaya Gora in northeastern Siberia, a frozen bird was found in the ground. A sample of DNA wa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 02, 2020
Plants & Animals
Most fish probably cringe at the idea of beaching themselves on purpose, especially since they can’t breathe out o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 24, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have learned that when sperm cells mature, they activate many of their genes, which enables a repair process
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 13, 2020
Plants & Animals
Albatross chicks are naturally flightless, and this increases their dependence on their parental units to bring back foo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 12, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
The genomic sequence of an ancient flowering plant, the water lily Nymphaea colorata, has been revealed.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch