Birds
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New Cousin to the Velociraptor Discovered in China
Liaoning Province in China is known for the substantial amount of dinosaur fossils that’ve turned up in the dirt there. Over the years everything from insects to fish to plants have been discovered in such detail that even skin textures...
Seagulls Rise to the Top of the Food Chain – By Killing Whales!
Seagulls are about the very last animal you’d think of when someone ask you to name something that might kill a full-size whale. But that would just mean that weren’t keeping up on the events taking place out in the waters off the coast of...
Pigeon Racing Attracts ‘New Money’ Millionaires in China
Pigeon racing is quickly becoming a hot place for a new generation of wealthy people in China to drop some cash. In fact it’s attracting drops of cash worth millions. One race can net the winning team’s owner upwards of $80,000. There’s...
Mission Accomplished: WWII Carrier Pigeon Finally Delivers Message
We all watch movies like National Treasure and secretly hope that something cool like that might actually be out there in the world or even better that it might, out of some cosmic chance, actually happen to us. David Martin of England had...
Bird Flu Goes Viral in Lab Ferrets!
Virologists and epidemiologists sure can be a fun bunch. Put enough money behind one of their projects and who knows what you’ll end up with. In this case we may end up with the end of the human race. Remember the bird flu scare? Total...
What Inspired Birds to Slam Into Homes, Alfred Hitchcock to Make a Movie About It?
You may not know that the 1963 Hitchcock masterpiece The Birds was inspired by real events. But two years prior, a swarm of the normally docile Sooty Shearwaters which rarely come to shore at all, began slamming into houses inexplicably....
A Beebe New Year Tradition: Dead Blackbirds Raining From The Sky
Once again the town of Beebe, Arkansas is cleaning up dead blackbirds around New Years and the police are banning fireworks. “It’s just got to be a pain in my career,” Beebe Police Chief Wayne Ballew said. Prior to this New Year’s Eve,...
Strange Bird Carcass Found In Iran
The carcass of a strange bird said to inhabit a local cave has been found in Iran. What do you think this it could be? The dead body of a strange dinosaur-like bird has been reportedly found near the city of Meshginshahr in the...
First Scientifically Confirmed Poisonous Birds
This is from last year, so it is not new information or breaking news, but I am just hearing about this and it is fantastic. There are poisonous birds that are flying around on this planet. The Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous), Variable...
Australian Birds Use Fear To Attract Mates
Male splendid fairy-wrens flirt using fear and sing a special song each time they hear the call of one of their predators, the butcherbirds. Although this behaviour exposes their position and puts them in danger, it has been determined...
Jamaican “Ninja Birds” Had Weaponized Wings
A flightless ibis (Xenicibis xympithecus) that lived on Jamaica until about 10,000 years ago had wings that evolved into weapons. It would use its club-like wings to beat predators and perhaps other ibis in defense of its territory and...
It’s Raining Dead Blackbirds In Arkansas
Thousands of dead blackbirds rained down onto Beebe, Arkansas to help ring in the new year. Welcome to 2011! UPDATE: 100,000 dead fish have washed up on the banks of the Arkansas River as well. Get out while you still can. [KATV via io9]