Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
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Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.
Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.
Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.
If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us. Creatures that resemble octopuses or birds or even robots are legitimate possibilities.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
The brain of an ancient bird offers clues to the survival of its modern-day relatives.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
The engineer working on Google’s AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
The Seychelles magpie-robin is up for sale – yes, for sale – as a digital nature collectible.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.