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Even the northern goshawk must observe a theoretical speed limit, experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) argue in a new paper. They say that the bird is one of the most adapt creatures on the planet at low-altitude flying through massive numbers of obstacles. As you'll see in the video em... |
23 January 2012
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It seems that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, is scaling up efforts to follow the example illustrated by Diana, the Princess of Hearts, rather than resembling to Diana the Huntress.The dutches has decided to forgo the cruel Christmas tradition posed by the traditional Boxing Day Royal pheasant hunt organize... |
22 December 2011
11:20 GMT |
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In a discovery that could also shed more light on the origin of naturally-occurring flight, researchers determined that the feather-covered, highly-intelligent Velociraptors most likely used their claws in a similar manner to how modern birds of prey use their talons.
Large birds simply grab hold of their prey, and ... |
16 December 2011
02:43 GMT |
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Thousands of dead birds killed during the devastating Rena oil spill, immortalized in a video, deliver a powerful message.
350 tonnes of oil that leaked into the Bay of Plenty terminated almost 20,000 birds. Their tragic ending is under the spotlight once again to make sure that deep-sea drilling projects would be p... |
12 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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Poaching activities, correlated with climate change and illegal trade have made the hen harrier population vulnerable, according to a recent study issued by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Natural England. Conservation groups managed to reintroduce the creatures after they were declared ext... |
8 December 2011
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Rovio has announced a new update to Angry Birds Seasons, the company’s season-centric version of the immensely popular, pig-popping puzzler.It appears that there is a new angry bird to be had in this update, as well as “25 new festive levels featuring gingerbread cookies, bells, twinkling lights, and cand... |
2 December 2011
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Birds are generally known as creatures with smaller body dimensions. This assumption could no longer be valid, as scientists warn us that global warming will change the way we feel about them taking into consideration that the phenomenon apparently makes birds bigger and fatter.Researchers who analyzed several specie... |
7 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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In 2009, Chris Jordan started manifesting his concern towards the faith of birds in Midway Atoll. He managed to capture the public opinion's attention after he showcased one of the most disturbing pictures I've ever seen.
Who would have thought that the two significant pieces of land, Sand Island and East... |
2 November 2011
06:38 GMT |
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The West Nile Virus (WNV) can be transmitted by birds and mosquitoes, but researchers have recently discovered that only particular species play determining roles in guiding the spread of infection. In these birds, for example, feeding patterns dictate the spread of WNV over a new territory.
In a paper published in ... |
21 October 2011
03:59 GMT |
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A recent study detailed in the October issue of The Auk reveals that Nazca booby youngsters that are attacked and abused by their parents tend to display the same type of behavior towards their own youngsters later on.
This type of tendency has been observed in humans, where a rough family history is known to inc... |
12 October 2011
04:21 GMT |
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After the first flying reptiles – pterosaurs – took to the skies tens to hundreds of millions of years ago, birds emerged in the world as well. Despite the fact that they were in direct competition with each other, the two groups continued to thrive, evolve and diversify in parallel.Fossil records show th... |
7 July 2011
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say that they have taken the first steps towards figuring out how birds looked like more than 100 million years ago, during a time when dinosaurs still ruled the world.The fact that birds are directly derived from dinosaurs ... |
1 July 2011
03:55 GMT |
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With the ability to cover more than 4,000 miles in an 96-hour-long flight, the great snipe is definitely one of the most remarkable animals on Earth. The small bird, which looks rather plump, flies the fastest long-duration flight of anything except airplanes. The shorebird can fly for 4 consecutive days without need... |
26 May 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Strangely, few people thought that the mighty dinosaurs may have had such a common problem as lice. Yet experts seem to believe that this was precisely the case, especially as far as the feathered of the giant lizards went. Dinosaurs are now believed to have been affected by the same type of parasites as young childr... |
6 April 2011
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Scientists at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce that they were finally able to determine the cause that led to the mass death of birds in Arkansas and Louisiana on New Year's Eve.According to the investigators, most of these animals were killed by impact trauma. The team that conducted the work... |
11 January 2011
04:45 GMT |
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The city of Beebe was surprised to see as many as 2,000 blackbirds falling from the skies on New Year's Eve, about 30 minutes before the clock struck midnight. As celebrations were ongoing, dead or dying blackbirds began falling from the sky within the city limits. Generally, it's uncommon for clouds to rai... |
3 January 2011
06:17 GMT |
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According to new scientific evidence, it would appear that it was possible for ancient creatures called pterosaurs to fly for up to 10,000 miles without stop, many million years before jet flight was invented. These animals were the rulers of the sky before the K-T extinction. The event took place some 65 million yea... |
13 October 2010
04:49 GMT |
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In a new study, researchers determined that flying fish indeed fly and glide just as efficiently as birds do. The data could allow experts to gather more data on the impressive creatures. Flying fish are very peculiar animals, because they are the only aquatic species that can fly. Conversely, there are many species ... |
10 September 2010
11:12 GMT |
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In recent investigations, experts determined that some of the moa eggs they discovered over the past few years in in fact belong to other species than those they were initially correlated with.But this finding also raises some interesting questions in itself, such as for example how did animals that weighed a quarter... |
31 August 2010
02:20 GMT |
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Experts have been conducting studies into how birds and their ecosystems evolve for a very long time, and they have for many years relied on observations by citizens to help them expand their databases.In the United States, collaborations between experts and bird watchers have been going on since at least the 1950, s... |
30 August 2010
06:59 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the development of a new control system for airplanes that allow the aircraft to land as birds do. The experts even demonstrated their concept using a foam glider, which was equipped with a single motor. The group made the instrumen... |
26 July 2010
06:07 GMT |
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As biologists and anthropologists have over the past few years been trying to figure out how is it that crow groups of certain species tolerate birds that appear to be free-loading. Studies have revealed that some members of groups tend to stand around doing nothing to help the community. In other species, when this ... |
2 June 2010
04:07 GMT |
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A large portion of venomous animals, be they mammals, fish, reptiles or insects, are colored in bright hues, which alert potential predators to the dangers they may subject themselves to if they attack. Such is also the case with the bumblebee, which has a fairly strong type of venom. Admittedly not fatal in low dose... |
26 May 2010
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In a new scientific study, researchers have broken new ground in their understanding of how birds and mammals may be connected evolutionarily. The investigators managed to discover that a common learning mechanism is at work in both the bird and mammalian brain, and that the same pathways are used, to some extent, in... |
19 May 2010
15:01 GMT |
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For many years, biologists have believed that humans were the only species to show compassion and the ability to console others. Over time, however, additional in-depth studies of the animal kingdom have revealed that this was not the case. Primates such as chimpanzees and bonobos, as well as whales and dolphins, are... |
18 May 2010
09:29 GMT |
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Studies of fossilized feathers revealed that the earliest ancestors of modern birds could not readily flap their wings and soar to the air. The research showed that, while the wings themselves were indeed developed, and ready to take the creatures to the skies, the feathers were far from ready to generate enough lift... |
15 May 2010
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Officials handling a Merseyside nature park, in the United Kingdom, decided to enlist the help of two llamas in order to protect the eggs and chicks of wading birds. The species is endangered, and scientists want to keep them safe from attacks of predators such as foxes. In an unusual decision, the role of guard dogs... |
28 April 2010
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In a new scientific study, researchers have finally managed to get a clearer image of how pigeons organize their flocks when flying together in large groups, and over long distances. The investigators determined the that birds which were the most savvy in the “flight-related business” were always in front... |
8 April 2010
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If a species of animal lives in the rain forest, one would expect that they have grown accustomed to the rain. In some instances, water can fall from the sky for days on end, and all creatures living in these areas need to be perfectly adapted to surviving in this environment. However, it would appear now that not al... |
7 April 2010
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Researchers have recently published the results of a new study, which shows that songbird populations in the United States could be getting smaller. After controlling for other factors that may be contributing to this phenomenon, the team could only conclude that global warming and climate change are the most likely ... |
12 March 2010
05:37 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new finding, researchers have determined that dinosaur exhibited the same type of wrists that birds would later employ long before animal flight developed. According to the experts, the flexible type of joint that allowed birds then to fold their wings were a common presence in fully-terrestrial a... |
3 March 2010
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that small-sized migrating birds may actually be better off if they are a bit on the chubby side. Researchers say that a little extra fat may be very beneficial for the winged creatures, seeing how long-distance migrations tend to take a huge toll on their ... |
18 February 2010
03:04 GMT |
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Scientists were puzzled to learn in a new study that some birds had the ability to use their ornamental feathers in very much the same ways cats used their whiskers. In other words, the winged creatures can sense their surroundings using a type of feathers that biologists thought to simply play a role in mate attract... |
15 February 2010
19:51 GMT |
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The globally declining state of penguin populations worldwide has motivated many biologists and other scientists to investigate possible solutions to this crisis that could inform policymakers. French experts at the Centre d'ecologie fonctionnelle et evolutive, working together with colleagues from the Universit... |
11 February 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Over the past few years, more and more scientific studies that refute the widely held idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs have been published in various respected journals around the globe. Such is the case with a new paper appearing in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), wh... |
10 February 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Birds are lucky. There is no other way to put it, considering that one of the only things standing between them and extinction is their ability to keep their migration schedule mobile. If it weren't for that, then they would have been caught off-guard by the sudden shift in climate patterns that the planet is ex... |
29 January 2010
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Among anthropologists and paleontologists, there has been a longstanding debate as to whether feathered dinosaurs, the early ancestors of modern birds, took to the skies by making longer and longer leaps from the ground, or by jumping off tree branches. A recent investigation appears to have what it takes to settle t... |
26 January 2010
04:54 GMT |
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New Caledonian crows are apparently able to use tools in their natural ecosystems, researchers report. The finding is very important because it represents the first time that this type of behavior has been observed outside the highly controlled settings of scientific laboratories. The new investigation was conducted ... |
18 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Over the years, sleep research has provided scientists with a wealth of knowledge on the processes that go on inside our brains as we rest. One of the most important things going on during sleep is the fact that memories get consolidated, as do the important experiences we underwent the previous day. Now, it would ap... |
13 January 2010
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According to amounting body of pieces of evidence, it may be that dinosaurs that lived in the late Cretaceous period were venomous, packing the dangerous chemicals inside their fangs. This is especially true for the saber-toothed relatives of velociraptors, which are considered to be among the ancestors of modern bir... |
22 December 2009
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that birds tend to favor some of their offspring over others, but with very good reason. That is to say, the animals simply want to reduce their losses in case something bad happens to the future generation. When a young bird becomes infected with parasites, for instance... |
21 December 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Birds have gathered around human settlements since the earliest days, because villages and cities offer them an inexhaustible source of food. Over time, some of the species were domesticated, like the house sparrow, and became increasingly connected with people. According to studies, it may be that these interactions... |
4 December 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Birds of prey are some of the most well-adapted animals in the world today. Over millions of years of evolution, they have had the chance to perfect their amazingly skillful talons, and diversify their use to a wide array of applications. Possible kill methods range from squeezing the prey until it gives its final br... |
2 December 2009
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A new scientific idea proposes that the main reason why dinosaurs were so able to endure for millions of years was the fact that most of them were warm-blooded, rather than cold-blooded, as average lizards are. Scientists propose that this trait allowed for them to evolve into the myriad of shapes and sizes that the ... |
11 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Scientists from the Lund University Vision Group recently discovered that birds require between 5 and 20 times as much light as the human eye does in order to perceive colors. As a direct result, their color vision decays much earlier in the day than our own, for example. More precisely, the experts determined that, ... |
4 November 2009
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In a new scientific study that may improve conservation efforts for migratory birds, scientists demonstrate that, in European robins, a visual center in the brain and a special type of light-sensing cells in the eyes play a much more important part in guiding the bird on its migratory path than magnetic-sensing cells... |
29 October 2009
15:51 GMT |
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The fact that butterflies had ears remained a mystery to science until 1912, when the first such structures were ever identified. Since then, researchers have analyzed them on all sides, and have discovered that the organs, far from being similar in all butterfly species, were in fact extremely diverse and different.... |
26 October 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Accord to leading paleontologists, a new, exceptionally preserved dinosaur fossil discovered in north-eastern China represents the earliest known feathered animal at this point. Estimated to have lived about 150 million years ago, the animal was petrified in mint condition, thus providing experts with the ability to ... |
25 September 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Scientists have recently discovered a previously unknown type of structure in birds' wings that is apparently responsible for creating a silver sheen in some species' wings. The weird thing is that, otherwise, these feathers would be completely black, the investigators say. They add that the new phenomenon ... |
21 September 2009
06:52 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, pigeons are perfectly able to protect themselves from harm, and to alert others around them of impending doom as well, by producing a sharp, whistling sound with their wings. While they may not look like too intelligent animals, they have sufficient instinct to keep their groups a... |
2 September 2009
09:59 GMT |
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