Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds
The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording ...
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5 Beak Problems in Pet Birds
It’s pretty safe to say that a bird’s beak is one of its most obvious features. And it’s super important! It’s used for ...
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‘Weird and wonderful’: Antarctic fossil forces scientists to redraw the bird family tree
In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...
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Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
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Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds
How fast does the beak move? To answer these questions, I’m recording high-speed X-ray videos of the feeding birds. Interestingly, I discovered some fascinating differences in beak movement ...
Scientists Just Found The Oldest Modern Bird Buried in the Antarctic Ice
For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
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Woman has to have colon 'unkinked' after 2 mystery symptoms lead to rare emergency
When there’s that extra length and slack, the sigmoid colon can twist on itself, a condition known as a sigmoid volvulus, Cunningham says. “It can just happen spontaneously,” she tells TODAY ...
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Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne?
Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...
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As bird flu ravages poultry industry, the damage spreads
Now, Crescent Duck Farm is the only one left. It produced a million ducks a year, until two weeks ago, when bird flu shut the farm down. Corwin said, "I saw a flock one day that was great ...
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Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals
The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...
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Bird flu has been spreading worldwide. What's the threat? Here's what the CDC recommends.
A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...
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SESAME STREET Parodied David Lynch’s Signature Weirdness in “Twin Beaks”
hoping to discover just why they call it Twin Beaks. These references must have been fun for their parents though. Agent Cookie even meets a bird going by the name David Finch, and even the Log Bird.