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Staff at the Ryde Hotel are devastated that their peacock flock is missing. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office is ...
The Ryde Hotel’s staffers are desperately missing their favorite occupants — the gorgeous peacocks known to fawn about on the ...
Until, that is, most of them disappeared, quite possibly stolen. There had been roughly 40 peafowl running around the vicinity of the Ryde in Walnut Grove, Calif., a small town in the Sacramento River ...
From a gynandromorphic grosbeak to feathers collected at a murder investigation in Florida, biographer Chris Sweeney shares ...
Lagom, embodying balance, is central to Swedish culture, making Stockholm an ideal spot for the launch of Cartier’s En Équilibre high jewellery collection in May.
Typically, male birds have more vivid colours than females. As Charles Darwin first explained, the most colourful males are ...
The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...
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Independent.ie on MSNFeathers evolved for looks, not warmth, says UCC research into 247-million-year-old reptile fossil
Biologists have long thought feathers first evolved so that creatures such as birds could better regulate their body temperature, but UCC research on a fossil reptile suggests a different explanation.
If you find a bird feather – how can you tell which species it belongs to? An ornithologist in the Forensic Laboratory at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pondered this question.
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