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It's a question visitors ask staff all the time at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Bird House. The answer may surprise you!

Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on Earth after nearly nine months in space and readjusting to ...

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Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness, radiation ...

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...

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Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. Katy is Managing Editor at ...

The bird’s long powerful legs are feathered to the base of the toe. Wedge-tailed Eagles are monogamous: they mate for life. Breeding pairs are territorial, and will defend their hunting ground and ...

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