Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

Tiny mites seem capable of relying on the power of static cling to hop into hummingbird nostrils and move between flowers. By Douglas Main Flower mites spend their lives slurping nectar and ...

The largest is the nine-foot-tall ostrich. The smallest is the two-inch-long bee hummingbird. Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ability to fly. The wings, for example ...