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The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...
Picture this: the next time you see a sparrow hopping along a sidewalk or a hawk soaring across a blue sky, you’re witnessing ...
In a remarkable win for wildlife conservation, a bird once declared extinct in the wild is now laying eggs again—proof that ...
Migratory birds cover great distances to feed and breed, sometimes crossing continents and oceans in record time. Are they being impacted by rising global temperatures?
So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...
The brightly colored birds are extinct in the wild, having disappeared from their native Guam in 1988 due to the introduction ...
Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.
When we think of the age of dinosaurs, we often picture huge reptiles like Tyrannosaurus rex or long-necked dinosaurs ...
Growing up in the 1960s and '70s in Uniondale and Hempstead, one entomologist recalled hundreds of cicadas clinging to tree trunks, singing their persistent buzzing mating songs.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Amazon’s first batch of internet satellites rocketed toward orbit Monday, the latest entry in the ...
Birds are on the move and summer’s coming. Here are six birds to look out for in migration season.
His research shows that as birds evolved, their adult skulls kept features that extinct dinosaurs had only ... Because bones must withstand the strain of flight, their geometric structure can ...