Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal warning to identify parasitic enemies near their nests, an international team ...

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Scientists find some parallels with human speech in cheeps and trills of birdsong. If zebra finches notice timbral features more acutely than temporal features, I wonder if certain populations of ...

Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found. By Carl Zimmer Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the ...