Poisons killed beloved owls in Tampa Bay. Can their defenders save others?
Mark Schocken took thousands of pictures of the great horned owls in Philippe Park, but he didn't often capture them eating.
Mark Schocken took thousands of pictures of the great horned owls in Philippe Park, but he didn't often capture them eating.
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Ancient owl-shaped slate engraved plaques, dating from about 5,000 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula, may have been created by children as toys, suggests a paper published in Scientific Reports. These findings may provide ...
Archaeology
Dec 1, 2022
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A trio of researchers from the University of California, Discover Owls and the University of Washington has discovered how great gray owls are able to find and capture voles under two feet of snow. In their paper published ...
A new species of owl has just been described from Príncipe Island, part of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe in Central Africa. Scientists were first able to confirm its presence in 2016, although suspicions ...
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Oct 31, 2022
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The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is the "canary in the coal-mine" for the health of old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. This owl indicates the status of old-growth forest, which has dwindled ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2022
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In the search for life beyond Earth, icy ocean moons like Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus are promising possibilities that host potentially habitable environments. Evidence of these environments—and of possible ...
Astrobiology
Oct 20, 2022
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Are we alone in the universe? An answer to that age-old question has seemed tantalizingly within reach since the discovery of ice-encrusted moons in our solar system with potentially habitable subsurface oceans. But looking ...
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2022
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When it comes to American barn owls, forget spring cleaning.
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2022
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A Johns Hopkins University researcher can continue medical experiments on barn owls after a lengthy battle with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals over animal cruelty and permit complaints.
Plants & Animals
Jul 12, 2022
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In Batesian mimicry, a harmless species imitates a more dangerous one in an evolutionary "ruse" that affords the mimic protection from would-be predators. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on May 9, 2022, have ...
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