The Dutch master painters in the 1800s have always been painting dead birds. We’ve always been thinking about birds in that way throughout history. But I feel like the way that I approach it is ...
Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...
An agile songbird of Europe's mountain meadows, this bright yellow-green finch flits between Alpine pine forests and grassy slopes at heights ... Juveniles resemble females but have streaked ...
Birds have many features that distinguish them from other animals alive today, but their earliest ancestors looked noticeably different from the familiar creatures we’ve come to recognise. Although ...
That's what the findings of new research on a common backyard bird, the house finch, imply. A groundbreaking pangenomic study has revealed a major DNA flip that appears to have made the small bird ...
The Small Ground-finch is a compact bird with a rounded body and short tail. Males are predominantly black or dark grey, with a distinctive thick, rounded beak. Their plumage is uniform, lacking any ...
Exactly 124 years ago Southend welcomed its first professional tattoo artist who set up shop in the town, eager to put his ink stamp on the bodies of men, women and possibly sometimes even children.