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Birds-of-Paradise Glow to Attract Mates, Adding a Flashy Element to Their Impressive Courtship Displays
Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner ...
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
China Jurassic fossil discovery sheds light on bird origin
A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...
'ChatGPT for birdsong' may shed light on how language is wired in the human brain
Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new ...
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Birds-of-paradise use secret biofluorescence to attract mates
Biofluorescence is widespread in birds-of-paradise, a group of tropical birds famous for their spectacular courtship dances.
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Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps
In 2019, scientists rediscovered a species of miniature deer long lost to science within the dry coastal forests of southern ...
Deceased rare Arctic bird to become part of collection at museum in Lawrence
A rare Arctic bird found deceased last week in southwest Kansas will become part of the collection at Lawrence's Kansas ...
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Where Have All The Birds Gone?
A: Before we calculate CBC trends for a species, we divide the raw number of birds counted by a function that describes the statistical relationship between effort spent and birds counted. Then we ...