ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Researchers from the University of New Mexico documented the world’s largest hummingbird’s extreme ...
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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 ...
Geese have a reputation for being aggressive, unpleasant birds, so imagine one that’s more than 2 m (6.6 ft) tall and weighs about 230 kg (507 lb). That’s Genyornis newtoni, an Ice Age "thunder bird" ...
Giant, yellow, non-native spiders that can travel through the air may be coming to the New York and New Jersey — if they’re ...
Trevor H. Worthy has received funding from the Australian Research Council in the past. Jacob C. Blokland and Phoebe ...
In the highlands of China, a nocturnal predator is on the hunt for small critters under the cover of darkness. Qiu X-C, Wang J-Z, Xia Z-Y, Jiang Z-W, Zeng Y, Wang N, Li P-P, Shi J-S (2024) ZooKeys In ...
One of the pandas being brought to the Smithsonian's National Zoo is the grandson of the pair that left the zoo in 2023.
Perhaps “birdbrained” isn’t such an insult after all –– crows, the ubiquitous urban bird, can vocally count up to four, the ...
I have a stream in my yard, and I built it myself. I’m not particularly handy, and my urban backyard is tiny. But where there ...
Most high-country gardeners are aware of the risk of planting tomatoes outdoors too early in the season. It only takes one ...
The late ecologist Edward Wilson’s biophilia hypothesis claims that humans have a biologically based inherent need to connect ...