1+ hour, 18+ min ago  (180+ words) Real gulls attacked decoys with first-year colors less often those with adult colors An adult American herring gull guards chicks at its nest on Kent Island, New Brunswick, Canada. While many bird species go from egg to adult in months,…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (423+ words) In Jan Brueghel the Elder's 1611 painting "Air," a bat holds a bird in its jaws In the 1611 painting "Air," Jan Brueghel the Elder painted bats along with birds. One of those bats, in the upper right, was having a strange…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (406+ words) Cut from the animal and left in seawater, the tissues absorbed nutrients and survived A young scarlet sea cucumber, about 5 millimeters long, uses its tentacles to feed. While sea cucumbers can naturally shed and regenerate these tentacles, researchers have also…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (146+ words) Adult finches make "heat calls" as the temperature rises. Exposure to the song prepares their unhatched young's brains for the heat....

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (278+ words) Steamy nightjar nights are punctuated by a profoundly percussive male performance Scissor-tailed nightjars have long been known to make explosive cracking noises at night. A series of sharp cracks splits the nighttime air in a forest in the Andean foothills....

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (508+ words) It's the first time spontaneous problem-solving has been shown in an invertebrate A bumblebee stands on a ball beneath an otherwise out-of-reach fake flower. The bee was not taught that the ball could be used as a makeshift step stool,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (228+ words) Birds lacking iron-laden liver immune cells lost their way until the sun returned By releasing homing pigeons with disabled magnetic immune cells, researchers tested whether the birds needed these cells to find their way back to the roost. To tease…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (542+ words) The gene for ghrelin is missing in serpents, yet present in other fasting reptiles Certain snakes, such as members of the Colubridae family (one shown), lack genes encoding the "hunger hormone" ghrelin and the enzyme that activates it. February 17, 2026 at…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (684+ words) The deaths are part of a larger population decline in the state A multitude of threats, including a horrific rabbit disease, has sent Nevada's golden eagle population numbers into a death spiral. By Martin J. Kernan February 18, 2026 at 11: 00 am This is…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (394+ words) Birds looking to dine from fishermen's nets in Denmark quickly got used to the buoy, named Bobby These cormorants and gulls are perched on the poles supporting a pound net. The fish trap offers a buffet for the birds'but potential…...