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A new fossil discovery has revealed that New Zealand’s ancient monster penguins were not the only human-sized flightless birds that roamed our planet tens of millions of years ago. Recent findings in North America and Japan suggest that giant creatures like penguins also spread throughout the northern hemisphere. And these …

The researchers speculate that female sparrows may be attracted to him. July 5, 2020, 11:29 am 5 min read This is an Inside Science story. When researchers first noticed white-throated sparrows singing a strange song in the Canadian province of British Columbia, they thought it was a regional dialect. Dialects …

If you consider Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep to be the ultimate catchy tune, think again: British Columbia’s White-throated Sparrows have come up with a new song that has gone viral in Canada. For years, the traditional descending whistle of the little songbird featured a three-note ending. But researchers have traced …

A white-throated sparrow. Image: Scott M. Ramsay A new bird song is spreading like a wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, on a scale not seen before by scientists. Birds rarely change their joyous little tunes, and when they do, It is usually limited to the local setting, where slight song …

A white-throated sparrow. Image: Scott M. Ramsay A new bird song is spreading like a wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, on a scale not seen before by scientists. Birds rarely change their joyous little tunes, and when they do, It is usually limited to the local setting, where slight song …