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Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy
His hummingbird photographs were first published in the November 1960 issue of National Geographic. For a study of male Cuba’s bee hummingbirds’ mating displays, scientists captured the birds ...
Why the best way to see the Pacific nation of Palau is by water
An aquatic adventure in the western Pacific island nation of Palau — home to over 300 islands — highlights the reward of ...
What’s behind the strange rash of ’dinosaur’ sightings in the Congo?
For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...
How to plan the ultimate Golden Triangle adventure in Northern India
Linking Delhi, the Taj Mahal and the pink city of Jaipur, with detours for temples and tigers, this is the perfect route for ...
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This monstrous mama laid the world’s largest egg
An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic Society's collection in 1967. The elephant bird belongs to a ...
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Industrial Farming a Cause of Plummeting Bird Populations
This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. As industrial-scale farms flourish in the European Union, its fields have grown quiet—robbed of the birds that ...
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NASA shares a stunning image of a Sandhill Crane with ‘large, brown eyes’; here’s what makes this bird special?
Followers were in a mix of wonder and surprise to see a bird rather than a spacecraft or planet on the ... loves to live in freshwater wetlands. National Geographic reports that these cranes ...
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Indian scientists are saving a rare bird — by getting them to mate with dummies
With males reaching an impressive 26 pounds, the great Indian bustard was once a top contender for India's national bird, but it lost out to the Indian peafowl. (Why these orcas are wearing salmon ...
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Think ‘Birdbrain’ Is an Insult? Think Again.
Birds, it turns out ... This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The American crows in Gabriella Mann’s Seattle Neighborhood love her, and the eight ...
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Scientists discover skull of oldest known modern bird
The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been ... radiation across the planet. Study lead author Dr. Christopher Torres, a National Science Foundation (NSF ...
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'SALLY' premieres at Sundance with Sally Ride's family, astronaut in audience
"I have thought long and hard about why Sally could not be open about our relationship, and the only thing that makes sense to me is that she was afraid," says O'Shaughnessy in th ...
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Did NASA just get hacked? Space agency's viral bird photo post has left netizens confused. Here's the truth
According to National Geographic, sandhill cranes, scientifically named Grus canadensis, are elegant omnivorous birds that can live ... and protecting our own planet. For more news like this ...