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If you had to describe a male peacock’s tail feathers, you might pick words like “dazzling” or “beautiful.” You probably wouldn’t go with “stealthy,” “aerodynamic,” or “subtle.” Peacock tails are just ...
“A convergence of art and science; accessibility and erudition; old and new — without compromise and without apology.” This is how neo-Renaissance 'birdwoman' Katrina van Grouw introduces her ...
A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger ...
The new ancient bird fossil showing a pair of elongated tail feathers. Image: M. Wang et al., 2021/Current Biology Introducing Yuanchuavis, an extinct bird that lived 120 million years ago in what is ...
NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Birds with burnt tail feathers and wings are turning up near the Meadowlands and animal experts suspect the New Jersey landfills are to blame. Don Torino, President of the Bergen ...
A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird ...
About 115 million years ago, a teenage bird with spotted, ribbonlike tail feathers flew around the trees of the supercontinent Gondwana, until it perished and fossilized in what is now northeastern ...
A strange pigeon-sized dinosaur that roamed the planet more than 150 million years ago was the oldest known relative of birds, say scientists. The new species 'Epidexipteryx hui' had large teeth that ...
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