The world’s largest hummingbird has been hiding in plain sight for centuries — and scientists only discovered the species is distinct from another giant species after attaching tiny backpacks ...
A team from Flinders University in Australia uncovered a nearly complete fossil skull of the "giga-goose," Genyornis newtoni —a flightless species that went extinct around 45,000 years ago—a study ...
Geese have a reputation for being aggressive, unpleasant birds, so imagine one that’s more than 2 m (6.6 ft) tall and weighs about 230 kg (507 lb). That’s Genyornis newtoni, an Ice Age "thunder bird" ...
Trevor H. Worthy has received funding from the Australian Research Council in the past. Jacob C. Blokland and Phoebe ...
A remarkable fossil finding in Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe has led to a new dinosaur species being named by researchers: Musankwa sanyatiensis. The fossilized remains of the species' single hind leg ...
Giant pandas are icons in Washington, D.C. For more than five decades, the National Zoo has created and maintained one of the ...
May 30, 2024 — Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn -- the period in the first few hundred million ...
Charles Darwin did not know where the hummingbirds came from. In 1834, when his ship the Beagle anchored in central Chile, he saw them flit past, sometimes hovering, and surprisingly big.
TRAVIS: Oh, great. After six months of panda-less bliss, the National Zoo is getting two more of these giant raccoon galoots — named Bao Li and Qing Bao — for tourists to gawk at as they do ...
Washington's National Zoo is preparing to welcome a pair of new giant pandas by the end of the year about six months after it sent its three pandas back to China. The Smithsonian's National Zoo ...
Environmental groups are making a new economic argument against coal, the heaviest polluting fossil fuel. Some regulators are listening. By Minho Kim Even as it pivots to solar and wind for ...
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