Mystery Solved: This Hummingbird Chirps With Its Tail
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A male Annaâs hummingbird emits a loud and quick chirp during its mating display by using its tail.
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An animal the size of a small squirrel experimented with aerial life about the same time as birds, scientists said.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages.
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By using video of singing birds played back in super slow motion, scientists are teasing apart the mechanics of the beak's role in birdsong&#151;and what that may mean when it comes to selecting a mate.
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Nov. 24, 2004 - Scientists believe they have confirmed theories that homing pigeons are able to carry out their long-range navigational feat thanks to tiny magnetic particles in their upper beaks.
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A humpback whale is satellite tagged for the first time in the waters of the South Pacific - to learn about its movements.
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A bird species new to science has been found by researchers on a remote island in the northern Philippines.
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An enigmatic humming sound made by the Earth may be caused by the planetâs stormy seas, suggests a new analysis. Japanese seismologists first described the Earthâs humming signal in 1998.
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A fossil of a gliding animal shows that mammals experimented with flight around when birds first took to the skies.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 3--DURHAM -- A great egret is back in the wild after a few weeks of R&R courtesy of the Piedmont Wildlife Center.   The bird, which tends to be coastal and not found this far inland, was seen dangling from a tree Jan.
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A NEW bird species, which is believed to be found nowhere else in the world, has been discovered on the remote island of Calayan, 70 km north of Luzon.
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Science & environment: Sightings of reclusive bird known for boom-like call at highest level since detailed monitoring began in 1990.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- Bird counts for many common species nationwide - - including several found in Santa Clarita -- have shrunk by more than half in the past three decades, according to findings released recently.
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SCIENTISTS believe they have finally worked out what makes the Earth sing. They have long been mystified by a constant deep drone, far below the range of the human ear, which has been picked up by seismic equipment.
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A new fossil discovery from China shows that a tiny squirrel-like creature glided through the air during the age of dinosaurs, more than 75 million years earlier than scientists had documented that ability in a mammal.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A mythical and ghostly creature has appeared in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands.
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Paleontologists have discovered a new  small gliding reptile in 220 million-year-old sediments of a quarry on the Virginia-North Carolina border. The new creature is named Mecistotrachelos apeoros, meaning &quot;soaring, long-necked&quot; and is about the size of a blue jay from head to tail.