Fowl-mouthed study finds that diet shaped duck, goose beaks
From Charles Darwin's famous finches to a new study that takes a rare look at a common order of birds—waterfowl—evolution has a tendency to reveals itself through bird beaks.
From Charles Darwin's famous finches to a new study that takes a rare look at a common order of birds—waterfowl—evolution has a tendency to reveals itself through bird beaks.
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Dolphins swimming at top speed use more than twice the amount of energy per fin beat than dolphins swimming at a more relaxed pace, according to a study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz. The researchers also found that startled ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2017
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The True´s beaked whale is a deep-diving mammal so rarely seen that it often defies recognition at sea by researchers. As a result, we have little data about its distribution, abundance and calving rate - information essential ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2017
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Around 600 pilot whales recently became stranded on a New Zealand beach, around 400 of which died before volunteers could refloat them back into the sea. Sadly, this kind of mass whale stranding has occurred since human records ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2017
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Penguins at a California aquarium got more than their daily helping of fish to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2017
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Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998.
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2016
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How do you find whales that dive so deep and spend so little time at the surface that some species have never been observed alive? Sometimes you just have to listen closely.
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2016
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Genetic tests confirm that a mysterious, unnamed species of beaked whale only rarely seen alive by Japanese fishermen roams the northern Pacific Ocean, according to research published this week.
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2016
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Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new clue in the global mystery surrounding wild birds with grossly deformed beaks. A team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, University of California San Francisco ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2016
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An international team of scientists who searched out specimens from museums and remote Arctic islands has identified a rare new species of beaked whale that ranges from northern Japan across the Pacific Ocean to Alaska's ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2016
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