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Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
Murmurations have no leader and follow no plan.
Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?
Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
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.
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us. Creatures that resemble octopuses or birds or even robots are legitimate possibilities.
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.
Total eclipses are a product of a strange and almost eerie cosmic coincidence — one that makes Earth an even rarer world in the galaxy and, by proxy, in the Universe.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
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 […]
13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth’s last wild continent.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
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.