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June 2, 2022 —The world's only nocturnal hawk -- Australia's Letter-winged kite -- may not be any better at seeing in the dark than its closest, day-hunting relatives. An international study has revealed ...
Aug. 18, 2020 —From emus to woodpeckers, modern birds show remarkable diversity in skull shape and size, often hypothesized to be the result of a sudden hastening of evolution following the mass extinction that ...
Sep. 29, 2021 —New research highlights the development of HySyn, a system designed to synthetically reconnect neural circuits using neuropeptides from Hydra, a small, freshwater organism, into the model organism C. ...
June 1, 2021 —Corvids use social information to protect themselves against deception by conspecifics from neighboring ...
July 21, 2022 —A new study helps reveal why tropical mountain birds occupy such narrow elevation ranges, a mystery that has puzzled scientists for centuries. While many assumed temperature was responsible for these ...
Aug. 23, 2022 —New research has found that hawks hunting swarming bats steer towards a fixed point in the swarm rather than targeting any one individual. Swarms of bats, flocks of birds, or shoals of fish, may not ...
Oct. 7, 2021 —Scientists have discovered that birds know to avoid the plants where toxic animals ...
Feb. 1, 2023 —Computer scientists recently announced a new, predictive model that is capable of accurately forecasting where a migratory bird will go next -- one of the most difficult tasks in biology. The model ...
Aug. 2, 2022 —If you've ever seen a grackle steal your dog pellets or a starling peck open a garbage bag, you get a sense of that some birds have learned to take advantage of new feeding opportunities -- a ...
Sep. 7, 2021 —Bird species across the globe are suffering and dying from a type of malaria and, while these strains are not infectious to humans, they're spreading quickly through global transmission ...