Tag: birds
The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering
It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system.
When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?
Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do.
Chinks in the Chicxulub Story
If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent.
Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust
There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down.
Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism
Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders.