Birds

How does the ancient circling pheasant call?

On May 26, Zhou Zhonghe's research group at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology reported...

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2026-01-12
How does the ancient circling pheasant call?

Extraordinary birds that migrate over extremely long distances

Approximately one-fifth of the world's birds migrate. For birds, each migration is an epic feat, and often a danger...

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2026-01-12
Extraordinary birds that migrate over extremely long distances

The slowest flying bird on Earth, the hill sandpiper

The slowest-flying bird on Earth, the Gouldian wader, has a plump body, a long, straight beak, and short legs. It resem...

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2026-01-12
The slowest flying bird on Earth, the hill sandpiper

Why can't birds eat in space?

Your browser does not support the video tag. Why can't birds eat in space?...

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2026-01-12

How do birds survive mass extinction events?

How birds, descendants of dinosaurs, survived the mass extinction event 65 million years ago has been a question scient...

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2026-01-12
How do birds survive mass extinction events?

New evidence that birds are not descended from dinosaurs

The debate over whether birds originated from dinosaurs has raged for over a century. Currently, the vast majority of p...

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2026-01-12
New evidence that birds are not descended from dinosaurs

Dinosaur egg fossils discovered in the Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province

The Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a fossilized egg in the Late Cretaceous strata of the Tiantai Basin in Zheji...

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2026-01-12
Dinosaur egg fossils discovered in the Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province

The world's ten most beautiful birds

Here are the world's ten most beautiful birds: 1. Superb Bird-of-Paradise 2. Rainbow Hummingbird (Rainbow Lorikeet)...

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2026-01-12
The world's ten most beautiful birds

The world's ten most intelligent birds

Many people mistakenly believe that birds have low intelligence, simply viewing them as warm-blooded animals. In fact, ...

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2026-01-12
The world's ten most intelligent birds

What is the heaviest bird in the world?

Based on typical weight, the heaviest flying bird is the Coriolis bustard, weighing 11 to 19 kg, followed by the Great ...

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2026-01-12
What is the heaviest bird in the world?

The world's ten most beautiful singing birds have voices that sound like heavenly music.

According to the classification system of the International Union of Ornithologists, there are currently 11,093 species...

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2026-01-12
The world's ten most beautiful singing birds have voices that sound like heavenly music.

Bird-like dinosaurs

Many features of early and modern birds first appeared in theropod dinosaurs. Feathers, furcula, modified "flappin...

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2026-01-12
Bird-like dinosaurs

Extant dinosaurs and birds are actually specialized theropod dinosaurs.

Parrots, eagles, penguins, chickens… they are all dinosaurs. Birds are actually special types of theropod dinosaurs. Cl...

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2026-01-12
Extant dinosaurs and birds are actually specialized theropod dinosaurs.