Some birds play tunes not all that different from jazz musicians
Humans were by no means the first to evolve musicality.
Tag: birds
The surprising reason why birds never crash mid-air: they always veer right
Seems to work wonderfully for them.
We’ve finally discovered how birds can sleep and fly at the same time without crashing
Frigatebirds spend weeks at a time flying over oceans in search for food -- here's how they sleep during this ...
Birds in suburbs defend their territory more aggressively than their rural counterparts
City birds aren't very friendly to each other.
Dinosaurs probably cooed, not roared
Dinosaurs might not have been as terrifying as we thought.
Dino bird wings found in fossilized 100-million-year-old amber look simply stunning
The specimens discovered by the researchers are one of a kind and, unlike previous amber fossils, the feathers were attached ...
Research team grows “dinosaur legs” on a chicken for the first time
Researchers have manipulated the genome of chicken embryos so that they develop dinosaur-like bones in their lower legs.
Dinosaur love dance impressed on sandstone offers first glimpse of dino courtship
Birds are literally dinosaurs, so many scientists suspect millions of years ago dinosaurs shared similar courtship tactics like fancy plumage ...
Male ruff birds cross-dress to steal females, and it’s all in their genes
Self-preservation and reproduction are the most powerful instincts, and life forms on Earth have devised all sorts of gimmicks and ...
Spring will come three weeks early in the US by 2100
"Spring is coming," said no Stark ever. You've already noticed that the traditional starting dates for each season have become ...
Your smartphone could be a digital ornithologist: software recognizes birds from photos
A group at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology developed a sophisticated facial recognition software specially designed to identify birds for ...
Bird’s beak reversed engineered into Dinosaur-like snout
Most evolutionary biologists seem to agree, based on fossil record, that the birds of today are direct descendants of dinosaurs, ...
Why birds crash into planes and cars like a deathwish
Birds are experts at avoiding predators, quickly dodging out of harms way when felt threatened. Likewise, they're fantastic at navigating ...
One in eight birds threatened by biochemicals and climate change
From the tropics to the poles, bird populations all over the world are facing a sharp decline, cornered by climate ...
The world’s most evolutionary distinct birds
The Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis), also called the guácharo, is more like a bat than a bird in some ways: It ...
Humans caused ancient Pacific bird extinction that killed 10% of world bird population
The Takahe is a flightless bird that was previously thought to be extinct in New Zealand until it was discovered ...
Ancient bird species had four wings
Images of fossils belonging to the enantiornithine genus. Feathers on the primitive bird's hind legs provide evidence of an extra ...
Cackatoos exhibit remarkable self-control akin to humans
You might be used to seeing birds peck grains as soon as you throw the food in front of them, ...
Birds can infer their partner’s desires, revealing a whole new depth of mind
The Eurasian Jays are among the most intelligent birds studied thus far by biologists, belong to the corvids, a group ...
Oldest bird might not be a bird in the first place
In a paper published in the journal Nature, Chinese paleontologists have detailed their impressions on the finding of a chicken-sized ...
Puffins in trouble as numbers dwindle
Where do birds go in the winter? That's a question many of us asked, as kids. Well puffins are currently ...
Origin of birds still debated
Birds evolved from lizards, (nearly) all scientists agree about that, but strangely enough there is still a debate around when ...
