Researchers at the University of New Mexico have documented the extreme migration of giant hummingbirds, uncovering their ...
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" ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
This week, learn when warm-blooded dinosaurs first roamed, Harvard and Google scientists unveil a map of the human brain, AI ...