An international team of paleontologists has discovered the first extinct giant penguin with remains of scales and feathers. This 36-million-year-old fossil shows that the plumage was reddish-brown and gray, unlike the "tux" worn by penguins today.
An international team of researchers has sequenced and assembled more than 90% of the genome of the common turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), the fourth most popular source of meat in the US. The study is published in the latest issue of the journal 'PLoS Biology'.
In the 1990s, scientists began to wonder why many birds eat different varieties of chili pepper without reacting to the pungent taste (painful for many) produced by a substance called capsaicin. Anna Pidgeon, University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
According to Ohm's Law, the current flow through a circuit is proportional to the potential difference, also called voltage or voltage. In the present case, the bird is the circuit.
23% of the bird species regularly present in Spain have a high risk of extinction and 74% of the Important Bird Conservation Areas show an unfavorable state of conservation or trend, according to the report "The State of Conservation of Birds in Spain 2010 ", carried out by SEO / BirdLife.
Canary chickens know what awaits them outside before they even hatch: according to a new study by zoos at the University of Cambridge, mothers of this species communicate with their chicks before they are born through hormonal messages.
SEO / BirdLife has chosen the black vulture (Aegypius monachus) as the bird of the year 2010 to highlight the threats to this and other scavenger raptor species. In the 1970s it became a very rare and threatened species, with less than 200 breeding pairs. Since then its population has multiplied by ten, reaching more than 2,000 pairs today.
The saying 'By San Blas, the stork you will see' has not been true for years because this species no longer emigrates as it finds abundant food in garbage cans and water in irrigated land in Spain, also during the winter period, according to SEO / Bird Life. However, this has not always been the case. Forty years ago the stork raised in Spain and then made a migration to areas south of the Sahara.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
