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Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

The slow loris, a nocturnal primate from tropical regions, is often seen as one of nature's "dumbest" animals due to its ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

Researchers unearthed the skull of a previously unknown starling-sized bird species named Navaornis hestiae that was so well ...

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical ...

In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...

The earliest use of bright colors in animals served as a warning system, a strategy seen in venomous snakes and poison dart frogs.

New Study Maps Dramatic 100-Million-Year Explosion in Color Signals Used by Animals Nov. 7, 2024 — A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before ...

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) in a pig on an Oregon farm has again raised concerns specifically among ...

Many real-life animals known as hematophages that sustain themselves on blood for a more practical reason — survival. Some hematophages are well-known: For example ... of other birds if ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...