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These Massive Extinct Eagles Could Have Carried Off That Toddler's Dad
Haast's Eagle Hunting Moa via Wikimedia Commons Last night, a video supposedly showing a golden eagle swooping down to pluck a toddler from a Montreal park--it was unsuccessful, luckily--hit the...
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Male Peacocks Try To Attract Females While Already Bonking Other Females
Peacock's Plumage Wikimedia Commons A study at Duke University sought to uncover the meaning behind the peacock's so-called "hoot dash" display. The hoot dash is a peculiar courtship move in which a...
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Lifting James' Giant Peach Would Have Required Way More Seagulls Than Roald...
James and the Giant Peach Illustration by Nancy Ekholm Burkert Ah, physics: Taking the world's greatest mysteries and turning them into cold, hard facts. Even the mysteries in beloved children's...
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Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds
Flamingos Wikimedia Commons The Cornell Lab of Ornithology just released an online archive filled with thousands of animal noises. The archive doesn't have everything--it mostly focuses on birds--but...
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Watch: Taxidermied Robot Sparrow Flips The Bird To Real Sparrows
Swamp Sparrow Wikimedia Commons Male sparrows do indeed get angry, especially when another male is intruding on his territory. Angry birds can fight to the death in whirling masses of feathers and...
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Romantic Jays Take Care To Feed Their Mates What They Particularly Crave
Jay Couple courtesy Cambridge University Cambridge researchers took pairs of mated jaybirds and put them in adjoining compartments, so that the male could see what the female was doing through a...
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Cockatoos Forgo A Treat Now For Future Rewards
Great Goffin Sam Mugraby via Wikimedia CommonsCould you hold a cookie in your mouth for a minute without eating it, if you were promised something even more delicious in exchange for the wait? Most...
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Are Birds Evolving To Not Get Hit By Cars?
Cliff Swallow Wikimedia Commons If you've ever had the soul-crushing misfortune of hitting a bird while speeding down the road, you can at least take heart in the fact that some birds are, on the...
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Important Scientific Mystery Solved: How Birds Lose Their Penises
About 10,000 species of birds have reduced or absent external genitalia. Tamara Staples A team of researchers at the University of Florida has solved the mystery of what some call "one of the most...
View ArticleFirst-Ever Super-Slow-Motion Video Of Hummingbirds Hovering
In order to design and create better flying robots, a team at Stanford University needed to see things our pitiful human eyes can't--like, how exactly does a hummingbird hover? How does a swift dive?...
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Forget Tweeting, Meet The Birds Who Blog
Blogging machine Wikimedia Commons A project launched today by researchers in Aberdeen and the RSPB will see a group of Scottish birds writing their own blogs.Readers will be able to track the daily...
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Find A Blue Chicken Egg? Congrats, Your Chicken Has A Virus
Colored Chicken Eggs Wikimedia Commons Here in the U.S., our eggs mostly come in two colors: white and brown. But there are two breeds, one in Chile and one in China, that are known to lay blue eggs....
View ArticleLook At This Totally Insane First-Person Eagle Video
YouTube user Srachi posted this short video of an eagle with a camera on its back. It was filmed in Chamonix, France (which is not America). And that's all we know about it. But enjoy the 1:26 of what...
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Long-Beaked Surveyor?
So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example:Hey @PopSci, is the #mysteryanimal a baboon?And then I might say "if you think...
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Which Birds Are Built For Long-Distance Travel? [Infographic]
Fall is here, and winter is already on its way, which means many birds will soon begin flocking south like they had parents in Florida. Designer Dooriya Yu charted the migration distances of birds...
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Dinosaurs Were Mostly Scaly, Study Finds
Thick-Skinned A fossil of hadrosaur skin Canadian Light Source Were they fuzzy or were they flat-skinned? That's the great question now for dinosaur researchers. After surveying all the world's known...
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From Untold Billions To None: How Passenger Pigeons Went Extinct
Extinct bird A stuffed passenger pigeon at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Keith Schengili-Roberts via Wikimedia Commons It's hard to fathom how many passenger pigeons there once were, but writer...
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A Bird Backpack That Can Track Migrations
Bird backpack tracker Courtesy Michael Shafer/Northern Arizona University To study migrating birds, engineers have been developing a sensor-loaded backpack that would power itself with vibrations...
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This Month In Zoo Babies
This male grey seal pup was born January 1, 2014 at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo to momma seal Lily. It's the first of its kind ever born at Brookfield, which now claims the largest zoo population of grey...
View ArticleWatch A Crow Solve A Complex Puzzle
Crows are smarter than great apes and about on par with a 5-year-old child. We know they (and similar birds) can already complete complicated tasks, like putting a stick through a tube to finagle out...
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