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New Scientist recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (682+ words) Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall The Story of Birds Steve Brusatte, Picador (UK); Mariner Books (US) Steve Brusatte is three for three. His debut book…...
Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (330+ words) The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had complex food webs despite the losses Artwork of a Hybodus shark, a predator that evolved in the late Permian and survived…...
Why non-human culture should change how we see nature
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (352+ words) Our growing understanding of how other animals also share skills and knowledge will help us chip away at the folly of human exceptionalism, say Philippa Brakes and Marc Bekoff By Marc Bekoff and Philippa Brakes Today, the evidence that many…...
Why connecting with nature shouldn't mean disconnecting from science
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (172+ words) There is a growing trend to see our relationship with nature as a spiritual thing. This is a mistake, argues Richard Smyth Current trends suggest that I am missing something. The problem, I think, isn’t in how we connect but…...
What do animals hear when music is played to them?
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (185+ words) It’s not entirely clear why animals respond to music, explain our readers, but it could remind them of the wild Animals seem to respond to music when it is played to them, but what do they hear? Chris Daniel Conwy,…...
We may finally know why birds sing at dawn
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (726+ words) Birds all over the world break into a dawn chorus every morning – now experiments in zebra finches suggest both a mechanistic and a functional explanation for this phenomenon Zebra finches are commonly studied in captivity by biologistsAlamy The dawn chorus…...
How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals - and the world
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (594+ words) Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural world Jane Goodall transformed our understanding of chimps Jane Goodall, who has died aged 91, changed the world because…...
Jane Goodall, dogged advocate for the natural world, has died aged 91
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (308+ words) Acclaimed conservationist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall has died, leaving behind a legacy of empathy for primates and the natural world... Jane Goodall studying the behaviour of a chimpanzee during her research in Tanzania Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall has died…...