February 12 is Darwin Day, the birthday of the brilliant author of On The Origin of Species. This year marks the 200th anniversary of...
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Ideas, like catwalk fashions, come and go in cycles, and so even the worst scientific mistakes will one day be back in some new...
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Life is hard for baby birds, as the world is filled with reasons why they might not make it too adulthood. Starvation and predators...
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If you know only a little bit about Charles Darwin, you know that he figured out Evolution via his study of the finches (and...
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Think about the difference between birds and mammals. You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but...
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Why is the Robin’s breast red? Why are any of the parts of any birds colorful? To make it easier for birders to identify...
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One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...
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Penguins. The birds that wear tuxedos and star in major motion pictures. People call them “flightless birds” but they do in fact fly; They...
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