The “clickbait” title for this post could well have been “The gays are making our bears queer” but no,...

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. This shouldn’t have to be stated, especially...

Tradeoffs in behavior, and plasticity We assume natural selection has shaped birds to avoid predators. Noticing predators, reacting to...

Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of...

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of...

Yesterday i introduced you, gentle reader, to the lovely work done by the acclimatisation societies of New Zealand in...

It has been discovered that largosity and flightlessness, which perhaps fortunately tend to go together in birds, evolved more...

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have...