The world’s largest hummingbird has been hiding in plain sight for centuries — and scientists only discovered the species is distinct from another giant species after attaching tiny backpacks ...
Researchers at the University of New Mexico have documented the extreme migration of giant hummingbirds, uncovering their ...
A team from Flinders University in Australia uncovered a nearly complete fossil skull of the "giga-goose," Genyornis newtoni —a flightless species that went extinct around 45,000 years ago—a study ...
An artistic life reconstruction of Genyornis newtoni, the last of the dromornithids, at the water’s edge Illustration by ...
One of the pandas being brought to the Smithsonian's National Zoo is the grandson of the pair that left the zoo in 2023.
Giant pandas are icons in Washington, D.C. For more than five decades, the National Zoo has created and maintained one of the ...
In the clear water of Totem Pole Cave (not pictured), “giant” creatures swim around, waiting to be discovered. Michael Behrens via Unsplash In the Northern Territory of Australia, large karst ...
TRAVIS: Oh, great. After six months of panda-less bliss, the National Zoo is getting two more of these giant raccoon galoots — named Bao Li and Qing Bao — for tourists to gawk at as they do ...
May 30, 2024 — Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn -- the period in the first few hundred million ...
Charles Darwin did not know where the hummingbirds came from. In 1834, when his ship the Beagle anchored in central Chile, he saw them flit past, sometimes hovering, and surprisingly big.
Environmental groups are making a new economic argument against coal, the heaviest polluting fossil fuel. Some regulators are listening. By Minho Kim Even as it pivots to solar and wind for ...
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