Its blue and brown-coloured plumage is undoubtedly the most distinctive feature of the European roller, a threatened migratory bird. Up until now, little was known about this bird's migration patterns and wintering. For the ...
Ecology
Oct 20, 2015
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Scientists at the University of Southampton have found a way to pry into the private lives of fish - by looking in their ears.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers with Trinity University in Texas has found that the development of dimorphism (physical differences between male and females of the same species) in songbirds appears to have been most strongly ...
A team of anthropology researchers has found significant differences in facial features between seven different pre-Columbian peoples they evaluated from what is now Peru – disproving a longstanding perception that these ...
Archaeology
Mar 5, 2015
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Don't mess with Hesperornis. It was a flightless, aquatic Cretaceous bird that measured up to six feet long, had a beak lined with sharp teeth, and was partially responsible for the downfall of at least one scientific career. ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2014
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The U.S. economy has long been powered in part by the nation's ability to attract the world's most educated and skilled people to its shores.
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2014
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WA scientists have unlocked the travel secrets of seagrass, including migration patterns which they say are key to safeguarding the plant's future.
Ecology
Oct 29, 2014
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Academics from Aston University (UK) will analyse more than one billion tweets from the UK and US in a linguistic study to discover how new words emerge and spread.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2014
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Migration patterns into and out of cities are the result of millions of individual decisions, which in turn are affected by thousands of factors like economics, location, politics, security, aesthetics, sentiments and others. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2013
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia have found out why birds are migrating earlier and earlier each year.
Plants & Animals
Nov 12, 2013
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