10 results for “birds”

1. Animals

   Birds

   Birds navigate by the stars, see colours we cannot and cross oceans without landing. Birds are everywhere

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2. Animals

   Animal Migration

   birds steer by the stars, learning the pattern of rotation around the pole as chicks. Birds

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3. Animals

   Reptiles and Amphibians

   birds, the land belonged to animals that could not make their own heat. Amphibians were the first

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4. Life & Biology

   Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions

   birds, rather than sprawling, and that posture let them grow large and move fast. Many were

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5. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

   birds and bats. The deal, nectar for pollen delivery, is 130 million years old and feeds

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6. Life & Biology

   Evolution

   birds. Back in England he noticed that the finches from different islands had different beaks: thick

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7. Animals

   Insects

   birds, freshwater fish, amphibians and many mammals, and for two billion people. Silk, honey, beeswax, dyes

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8. Plants & Fungi

   Seeds

   birds and mammals will eat them and drop them far away, with manure. Squirrels and jays

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9. The Human Body

   The Senses

   bird follows. What feels like direct contact with reality is a model, built by the brain

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10. Life & Biology

    Ecosystems and Food Webs

    birds that lived in the kelp vanished with it. When otters returned, the kelp came back

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