News

In the case of domestic cats, dogs and many other domesticated species, intentional and unintentional selection by humans ...
While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...
A shared shape rule, the power cascade, governs most bird beak growth. It links modern birds with extinct dinosaurs.
Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size, but what determines the form they will take? Just how exactly […] ...
Get off my lawn!” It's not just grumpy neighbors—female birds nesting in cavities fiercely defend their homes too. Duke ...
According to George, the Central Valley is home to a number of significant fossil finds—including California's state dinosaur ...
The rare sighting of a living juvenile colossal squid has scientists stunned and thrilled.
The Pre-College Program in Computational Biology offers comprehensive training in both state-of-the-art laboratory techniques for generating biological data and the computational methods necessary to ...
SuBastian did it again! Roughly 600 meters beneath the icy waves near the South Sandwich Islands, the remotely operated ...
By studying beaks in light of this mathematical rule, we can understand how the faces of birds and other dinosaurs evolved ...
Research reveals a hidden mathematical rule, known as the 'power cascade', that governs the growth and shape of beaks in ...