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Shauntel Sarionder walks her dog Bella in front of a fireworks stand at Esparto Community Park on Thursday, July 3, 2025. “It ...
Compared to other air cleaners, the Rabbit Air BioGS 2.0 Air Purifier makes a loud statement by being quiet and unobtrusive.
All is fair in love and war – even in the Jurassic. On the ancient Iberian Meseta, the colossal Lusotitan, Old Grande, is in ...
Eugenio Suárez and Geraldo Perdomo homered, Ketel Marte went 4 for 4 and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 5 ...
Air sacs, also found in modern birds, helped sauropods take in more oxygen and keep their bodies cool. These features were vital for surviving in tough environments and growing to extreme sizes.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the diverse ways animals extract oxygen from air, from the highly tuned lungs that enabled ...
Similarly to lungs, these air sacs inflate and deflate to breathe, and presumably can’t do so if they’re constricted. If the bird is an orphaned hatchling with skin showing, it also needs to ...
Life-sized papier-mâché birds are popping up in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park (GTNP) this spring, and they're quite a sight. By this we mean something you certainly wouldn't want to ...
The most distinctive element is not exactly a call but a unique vocalization produced by inflating and deflating specialized air sacs concealed beneath the white chest feathers. When inflated, these ...
How can a tiny bird be heard from just as far away as a huge elephant? Why is it so loud? It's because of acoustic resonance plus the bizarre biology of certain bird species. The white bellbird ...
Even though air sacs and eggs are important contributing factors to giant dinosaur size, these biological quirks removed barriers rather than required bodies to get bigger. In a post-Cretaceous ...
Paleontologists in Argentina recently found the first unambiguous evidence that a group of theropod dinosaurs had hollow bones capable of holding air sacs – an ability that helps birds fly, according ...