Birds are a highly successful class of animals that have colonized every continent and evolved into the roughly ten thousand species we know today. Their advanced reproductive strategy is just one of ...

More than just fascinating feathered structures, avian wings have evolved to be mechanical masterpieces with complex musculature, joints, and bones. Understanding bird wing anatomy helps us decode the ...

If you want to keep track of winged visitors to your garden, one of the best bird feeder cameras could be just what you need. We’ve tested a range of these video-equipped feeders and we think ...

This comic, illustrated by Fio Geiran, is inspired by an interview from TED Radio Hour's episode The Birds and the Bees. From nest-hopping to manipulating eggs, the bird world is full of family drama.

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The thyroid gland is part of the endocrine system (along with the adrenal glands, hypothalamus, pituitary, ovaries, and testes, and other endocrine organs). The thyroid gland releases hormones into ...

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Oct. 25, 2024 — Drosophila is one of the most thoroughly studied lab animals -- with the exception of the female reproductive tract. Now a team of biologists has taken the first deep look at the ...

The integumentary system is the body’s outermost layer. Composed of skin, hair, nails, glands, and nerves, its main job is to protect your insides from elements in your environment, like pollution and ...

For many decades now, the harvest of geese has been well below the birds’ reproductive potential. Canada geese generally don’t nest until their third year and lay relatively few eggs (usually ...

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Squids’ tentacles are smooth (i.e. without cups) along almost their whole length, but the tip of the tentacle, called the club, bears some cups. : Diagrams of a squid, in this case Architeuthis(above) ...