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The FishEye Collaborative combined underwater sound recordings with a 360° camera to identify the sounds made by individual ...

The fossil was tiny— about the size of a modern sparrow— but it had features in common with a larger fossil bird called ...

In Panama’s forests, researchers discovered that tiny fringe-lipped bats hunt with the patience and precision of big cats.

A UC Berkeley study shows that when zebra finches hear the call of another zebra finch, they have a mental representation of ...

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It may sound like a simple - and simply dull - statement of fact, the kind of thing that people refer to as a 'passing comment' or deploy as 'filler' to fix a dreaded awkward silence. But, while it ...

When scientists played R2-D2’s famous bleeps and whistles for a group of birds, they weren’t expecting a concert — but that’s exactly what they got. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and ...