February 12 is Darwin Day, the birthday of the brilliant author of On The Origin of Species. This year marks the 200th anniversary of...
Ideas, like catwalk fashions, come and go in cycles, and so even the worst scientific mistakes will one day be back in some new...
Life is hard for baby birds, as the world is filled with reasons why they might not make it too adulthood. Starvation and predators...
If you know only a little bit about Charles Darwin, you know that he figured out Evolution via his study of the finches (and...
Think about the difference between birds and mammals. You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but...
Why is the Robin’s breast red? Why are any of the parts of any birds colorful? To make it easier for birders to identify...
One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...
Penguins. The birds that wear tuxedos and star in major motion pictures. People call them “flightless birds” but they do in fact fly; They...
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