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15 million years of isolation created Earth's most alien-looking landscape.

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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

Dark-eyed junco songbirds have been serenading the University of California, Los Angeles campus for decades as they forage for food. The species from the sparrow family is not usually found in cities.

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Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went extinct.