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Parasitic birds 'exercise' in their eggs, hatch … and then pulverize their nestmates
Brood parasite babies wriggle in their eggs to build muscle, a study suggests.
Dozens of endangered penguins killed after being stung in the eyes by swarming honeybees
Conservationists have confirmed that 64 African penguins were killed in South Africa after being stung in and around the eyes by honeybees.
Bizarre tail on little dinosaur-age bird was literally a drag
An extraordinary 120-million-year-old fossil bird from China reveals that the animal had a sexy but vaguely impractical tail.
This Australian bird's cry sounds just like a human baby
A brown, long-tailed bird at the Taronga Zoo Sydney in Australia has learned how to mimic the shrieks and shrills of human babies.
Tortoise hunts baby bird in slow-motion, crushes its skull in shocking video
This is the first video evidence of a tortoise hunting anything.
These flesh-eating centipedes hunt and eat baby birds alive. Here's why.
The centipedes hunt at night, striking young, defenceless petrel chicks in their nests and devouring them alive after injecting paralyzing venom.
Melting sea ice could wipe out 98% of emperor penguins by the end of the century
A new study has predicted that emperor penguins could become functionally extinct by the end of the century due to melting sea ice.
Sneaky birds caught on video while yanking hair from live animals
YouTube videos show that birds pull animal hair more often than previously thought.
