During sleep, the brain undergoes a set of processes to ensure we wake up feeling refreshed. Humans experience different phases of sleep, rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep, which cause distinct changes in physiology, brain activity, and cognition. During REM sleep, the brain is very active and we experience vivid, bizarre, and emotional dreams.…
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Scientists believe they know how dinosaurs evolved wings to become modern-day birds. The question is, why?
Surveillance video captures massive flock of birds suddenly falling from the sky in northern Mexico.
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it is indeed a bird. More precisely, a goose flying upside down.
The peculiar large frogmouth bird of Malaysia is terrifying! No wait… It’s laughably goofy.
Meet the terrifying large frogmouth, or Batrachostomus auritus, a bird native to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei. It’s menacing jagged shape and brown camouflaged feathers make it look like some sort of jungle stealth fighter looking for a fight. And don’t even think about getting near its baby (look closely at the picture above). It’s…
With climate change, US ecosystems have shifted hundreds of miles north.
Those crazy parrots in India are getting addicted to opium and flying into trees in a drunken stupor.
Farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India are livid. Their poppy crops are being destroyed by parrots who have become addicted to opium. Farmers say the birds swoop in and gobble poppy flowers with such speed that the farmers are unable to act. In fact, they say the birds have learned to fly in silence to further…
See the intercontinental path of two birds on their epic migration from Europe to Africa
The guys over at 422 South have done it again providing us a wonderful “data-visualization” of the migratory path of the European honey buzzard. The European honey buzzard, also known as the pern, migrates every year from Europe to the warmer coasts of Africa where it spends the winter months soaking in the warm sun…
Called “streamers”, solar power plants are causing birds to ignite in midair.
They call them “streamers” for the smoke plume that comes from the birds as they ignite in midair while flying over solar plants. Solar plant operators argue that the puffs of smoke commonly seen erupting above the panels is nothing more than insects or bits of airborne trash being ignited by the solar rays reflecting…