Nov. 27, 2024 — Analysis of 216 extinct species by biologists found birds endemic to islands, occupied ecologically specific niche, lacking flight, with large bodies and sharply angled wings ...

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence Date: November 13, 2024 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...

Conservation was in its beginning stages in that era, and many observers and scientists were becoming concerned about declining bird populations. Beginning on Christmas Day 1900, ornithologist Frank M ...

Q: The amount of effort that goes into a Christmas Bird Count varies quite a bit across years and count circles. How do you deal with this issue when you calculate abundance trends? How do you know ...

From “ouch” to “aïe” to “yakayi,” languages across the world exclaim pain using similar-sounding words, hinting at a common ...

This project is a pipeline for recognizing American Sign Language (ASL) gestures. The steps include creating a dataset, preprocessing the images, training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model, ...

It's certainly an evocative kind of opening, but 30 Birds goes one better, placing its detective heroine Zig on a train careering through space on tracks made of clouds, heading toward a city made ...

Bring nature to your doorstep by keeping wild birds fed with a homemade bird feeder. Follow our steps to build a seed feeder from a reused plastic bottle. Not only do bird feeders bring more local ...

Without this assistance, pollination would not take place and the reproduction of plant life would not be possible. We all know the importance of bees in pollination, but do birds help pollinate ...

From long and winding migration flights to intricate songs and clever tool use, many bird behaviors are known to be transmitted socially and persist across generations—what scientists define as ...