Meet Gus, a pet parakeet who drank and swore and charmed
Barbara Held and David Bellows are bird people, although he didn’t become one until a tiny yellow parakeet came into their ...
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Birds-of-Paradise Glow to Attract Mates, Adding a Flashy Element to Their Impressive Courtship Displays
Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner ...
Is the Duolingo owl alive? What to know about the ‘death’ of Duo, Dua Lipa's reaction on X
Duolingo announced that its beloved Duo the Owl mascot is dead. Here's what we know and why Dua Lipa is reacting to the news on X.
Masquerading moth deploys specialized nanostructures to evade predators
Researchers from Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia found the forewings of the fruit-sucking moth ...
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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
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Bird's Nannies
Did you know that some animals hire nannies? No, they don't pay other animals to raise their kids, but some animals--like an ...
Moa extinction: Human colonization sealed fate of New Zealand's giants, study shows
New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...
Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds
Researchers have discovered that massive beaks and strong bites hinder the velocity of beak movement in songbirds. The ...
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‘The Wild Robot’ creators on creating its impressionistic look, a potential sequel
A shipwrecked automaton and an orphaned gosling form an unconventional family in DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot. Screen talks to director Chris Sanders and producer Jeff Hermann about creating the island ...
'The Wild Robot,' based on Maine author's book, up for Oscars
Midcoast author Peter Brown says he was thrilled to hear that the film "The Wild Robot," inspired by his book, got three Oscar nominations Thursday. But he wasn't surprised. "Director Chris Sanders ...