April has officially arrived, marking the peak time for spring bird migration. After a long and cold winter, many migratory birds are now embarking on their travels north. Wondering why migration ...

Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found their whistles work like names, revealing complex social signals.

Abstract: Birds are essential indicators of ecological health, yet traditional identification methods rely heavily on expert knowledge and visual observation. This paper presents an AI-powered system ...

Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, ...

Large numbers of dead or dying geese have been found at parks across New Jersey in recent days. No cause was confirmed, but the Monmouth County Park System said in a statement on Tuesday that Avian ...

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Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom—function permanently without it. This may be relevant in future ...

Some 150 million years ago, Europe was tropical — and mostly underwater. The entire continent was closer to the equator than it is today, and what is now Germany and its neighbouring countries was ...

When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los Angeles city birds responded just as quickly, with measurable shifts in beak ...

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Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...