Male peacocks can make females' heads vibrate at a distance
18 June 2018
Peahens have fan-shaped crests on their heads, and it seems males can make these crests resonate by making a specific noise with their tails
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Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans
14 June 2018
Dozens of species all around the world are abandoning the day and becoming more active at night, to avoid contact with humans
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming
24 May 2018
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries
Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant
13 March 2018
The bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx could flap its wings to fly, but only for short bursts – like a modern pheasant flapping to escape danger
Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds
26 January 2018
Tens of millions of years before dinosaurs evolved into birds, a proto-dinosaur had surprising features that suggest its young needed parental care after hatching
This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
13 December 2017
A nearly complete skeleton of an early long-necked plesiosaur has been found in a clay pit in Germany, and reveals they survived a mass extinction
